harleyshine:

Day 2: Something that’s illegal but you think it should be legal.

I know that I could use this topic as a learning opportunity to explore some controversial debates about subject matters I haven’t been knowledgeable about prior to writing this, but what my mind immediately jumps to is Gay Marriage. I am so proud of the places that have legalized it so far (I stood during the Gay Pride Parade this year on the streets of New York City, celebrating with others while New York passed a law allowing Gay Marriage and a woman was proposed to during the parade) but I am still saddened by the fact that not only do some states still not allow it, but by the prejudice/hatred there is towards same sex or transgendered couples.

Anything I could say about this has probably been said before, and might be a bit cliche, but even as a young girl I could never comprehend how it was anyone could even think to try and control what truly is the earths strongest, and purest energy: love. Love at the core is so selfless, and warm. It’s a part of every single one of our lives romantically, friendship & family wise, for strangers, for our animal companions, for nature itself, and so on. For one person to be able to discover another being whose soul interlaces with their own, creating an endless flow of passion, discovery, and light between that person and the next is a beautiful gift. Being in love, having a soul mate, how could anyone deprive someone of this just because of (what really comes down to it) body parts?

If you don’t understand it and therefore fear it, or were raised to dislike it, I can’t get down on you about that because that’s who you are. As long as you aren’t being hateful and enabling others to restrict/stop two people who love each other from being together, I will respect your opinions even if I do not agree with them. But you don’t have to stand in the way of someone else.

Love is a universal language, love is like oxygen.  I truly hope that everyone who desires it wakes up one day to find it laying there beside them, painted on the faces of that one boy or girl whose smile makes the sun rise, whose laughter plays a song that rings true even years after it has begun.

fuckyouaways:

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