I have been thinking about this topic ever since I went to the Lady Gaga concert, and more recently ever since I met the nicest girl in the longest Starbucks line. That topic being: everyone belong. Everyone belongs meaning that every person belongs here on Earth; wherever they may be and whoever they may be.

I am a strong believer that everyone has a purpose, and that there is no specific person that just simply "fits in." At the Lady Gaga concert, I saw people dressed in the most unique, yet wonderful, things. For just a few hours, as Lady Gaga sang her songs and paused to talk about how everyone should be who they want to be and not care what everyone else thinks, it felt as if everyone fit in. It didn't matter what race, religion, gender, age, etc. anyone was... we were all there to see Lady Gaga in concert.

I thought about how to write an article about how everyone fits in for quite a few weeks after that concert. This brings me to today, to something that actually happened a few minutes ago. I walked up to the super long Starbucks line after class, and I clearly was dreading standing in that ridiculously long line just to get some coffee.

This girl in front of me, who I had never met, turns around and just says, "Hi" in the most excited of ways. I say hello back, and she asks my name. I tell her. I ask hers. She tells me. We then continue to tell each other what year we are in college and what we are majoring in. I learned so much about her in just a few minutes. We then joked about how long this line was, but how it was worth waiting.

This girl did not know me, and I did not know her. However, she went out of her way to say hi and get to know me. Honestly, it made my day considering I slept through my alarm and had a crazy morning. Now, this girl is not like me in some ways, but in other ways she is. I have blonde and am white. She has black hair and is Asian. But none of that matters, you see, we both belong here. We both belong on Earth, at this school, and in this Starbucks line, apparently.

I consider myself to be a "normal" person in my eyes, and everyone else considers themselves to be a "normal" person in their eyes. Normal is boring, however, and what makes each individual unique is their differences.

I think that a lot of people have taken up the courage it takes to stop caring about what other's think. Now everyone else just needs to stop judging everyone else, and just focus on their own life.

I am a female, and I like males. I have grown up in America my whole life. I know people who are males, and they like males. I know people who grew up in different countries, and now live in America. The point is, who is anyone to decide that they are the "normal" person, and the one that fits in best? Who is anyone to decide that they have the power to make another person feel like less of a person? Who is anyone to decide that they belong, and that someone else does not? We're all people.

These are questions we need to ask ourselves. These are things we need to focus on or need not to focus on. What I mean by that is, nobody has the power or "rules" to decide who gets to belong and feel welcome here.

Everyone, no matter who or where or how or why they exist on this planet, has the right to fit in and has a distinct purpose. They have the right to belong. Society has changed a lot, especially recently, and one thing that would make so many other things better would be if everyone would realize that they belong just as much as the next person. We are all people, and everyone belongs.