obstacles
Do you ever feel like everything good you do and everything good you see everybody else do can be completely destroyed by just one, unappreciating, ignorant person? Like a million good deeds and powerful words is blown away by one single puff.
Yeah, it's depressing.
This week has been sooo hectic. Today especially. I was the coordinator of the National Great American Smokeout on UA campus today, trying to get support on anti-smoking and trying to help others give up their bad habits. That was awesome. I'll post a picture as soon as I get them.
And then tonight, (and the past two nights), I've been a part of the Tunnel of Oppression. It's a tour where we put people through the lives of other minorities. Each visitor gets a label to wear (i.e. nigger, gimp, towelhead, chink, faggot, retard, kike, wetback, etc.). And each experiences the receiving end of their stereotype. For example, the gimp must ride around in a wheelchair. The faggot is confronted by two homophobes who criticize him up abouts AIDs, his friends, God, etc. Jews get sent to a simulation of a gas chamber. Etc. It's pretty awesome. People cry. People become aware. People change.
But today, during the tour, some "friends" in the hall decided to ruin each tour by playing porn in the background. Throughout the whole night. And it just pisses me off how immature we still are in college.
It made me cry. It made everything seem so worthless, that as much change as you make in the world there will still be those ignorant, immature, stubborn people who are still homophobic, racist, or they stereotype and they just don't understand. It's like why bother? Some people are so dense and will never learn.
Well, I guess I'll keep trying. And I hope other people around me will try to.
I hope one day, it won't be such a shame to be a part of humankind.
Yeah, it's depressing.
This week has been sooo hectic. Today especially. I was the coordinator of the National Great American Smokeout on UA campus today, trying to get support on anti-smoking and trying to help others give up their bad habits. That was awesome. I'll post a picture as soon as I get them.
And then tonight, (and the past two nights), I've been a part of the Tunnel of Oppression. It's a tour where we put people through the lives of other minorities. Each visitor gets a label to wear (i.e. nigger, gimp, towelhead, chink, faggot, retard, kike, wetback, etc.). And each experiences the receiving end of their stereotype. For example, the gimp must ride around in a wheelchair. The faggot is confronted by two homophobes who criticize him up abouts AIDs, his friends, God, etc. Jews get sent to a simulation of a gas chamber. Etc. It's pretty awesome. People cry. People become aware. People change.
But today, during the tour, some "friends" in the hall decided to ruin each tour by playing porn in the background. Throughout the whole night. And it just pisses me off how immature we still are in college.
It made me cry. It made everything seem so worthless, that as much change as you make in the world there will still be those ignorant, immature, stubborn people who are still homophobic, racist, or they stereotype and they just don't understand. It's like why bother? Some people are so dense and will never learn.
Well, I guess I'll keep trying. And I hope other people around me will try to.
I hope one day, it won't be such a shame to be a part of humankind.