top photo: A group of Christians showed up at a Chicago gay pride parade in July.
They were holding up signs saying, “I’m sorry that Christians judge you.”
“I’m sorry for how the churches treated you.” and “I used to be a bible-banging homophobe, [I’m] sorry.”
bottom photo: ‘Christian or Muslim, we are all Egyptians’— Christians form a human chain around Muslims to protect them from the disruptions during Friday prayer in Alexandria, Egypt.
Twice in one week, two examples of people(Christians, though that isn’t necessarily significant..) doing it right. We need more love in this world, so why are people trying to stop loving relationships, gay or otherwise? We need more goodness in the world, so why are we against a religion that inspires people to be good? There are many roads to the same place.
Time by yourself.
“Be by yourself and enjoy it. It’s not bad to be alone. Learn to be really happy and healthy with your own company. Don’t feel like you are missing out on something if you spend time getting to know you. Be able to have a party by yourself. I found that a lot of bad choices happen when you can’t be alone.”
was exactly one month from the day that pretty much everything will change for me.
I’ll move away from my parents for the first time, have an apartment by myself, start at a new school (a huge university no less), and hopefully get a new job. It’s kind of daunting, but at the same time, I am so ready. The only thing Jerseyville has for me is my family and a few other people.. I can’t do what I want to do here, and even if I could I don’t think I’d want to. Before I really settle down anywhere, I would like to move around and live in different cities, find my own home. Now to work on getting the guts for that kind of thing..
Of course, that doesn’t mean Jerseyville hasn’t been a good home for me. In fact, I’ve recently become a little nostalgic about the town as well as my house, how much time I can spend with my family.. even the dairy queen. In ten years, I’ll probably be in a big city somewhere, but I’ll never forget small town life.