Preset Ideals & Ponderings

What do you see when you think female? And male? Anything in particular? Are there distinct differences between the two? What about a gay? A lesbian? A straight girl? Guy? Bisexual? Transsexual? What do you think when you hear the word 'queen'?

I hate that society has even made these words to differentiate and categorize. People are people, what they do to their image or with their genitalia does not make who they are. Our actions, and prejudices, provide more than enough verbiage to explain a person. How can you possibly form a correct judgment on a person just by knowing who they sleep with? Or how they do their hair or where they shave (or lack thereof?)

Can you still picture your best friend in kindergarten? What made them so great? Their personality, I would bet. They wanted to be friends, have someone to confide in. Not because you were pretty, smart, or wealthy.

How could we, as we age, lose so much over the course of 10 to 13 years? How can forget what really matters? When did we forget to forgive? Treat others as we'd like to be treated? When did it become to keep our heads above the rising water, and go on in this dreary grey world? Why did we stop 'helping thy neighbor'? Is it because we got nothing out of it? What about the warm fuzzy feeling of helping someone else? Why not do good, just to do good? If there were no positives or negatives to be gained or lost would we all be evil for the sake of being evil? Would we not have a conscious?

I don't think people are born inherently evil. I think we've been taught to turn a blind eye, unless there are things to be gained. We've been taught to associate images with words, make patterns- whether they are there or not. What if we weren't to make those associations? And go into everything as though it were completely new? I would hope it would make a differences