Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true

Writing about tofu and the blisters I’ve gotten from walking feels silly today. I want to be able to write some magical phrase that will make society realize THINGS HAVE GOT TO CHANGE.

But more eloquent people than I have spoken, and it just keeps happening. People keep dying at the hands of some angry dude with a gun. And I can’t just blame the guns. I wish I could. I hate guns. But it’s not just the guns.

It’s something bigger, more widespread. Something that probably lives in all of us. And I worry society is losing its filter. The filter that keeps you from acting on every crazy thought you have.

We all get angry. We all feel our needs are ignored at some point. We all feel alone sometimes. We all feel there are people in the world making choices we don’t agree with.

But see, right there.

WE ALL…

When you get down to it, we all have so much more in common than we think. And I guess I just really especially hate that this latest tragedy happened in a gay club. Because I’ve always thought the commonality among all humans was sex. And here are people embracing their sexuality against some pretty difficult societal crap at times.

WE ALL…

Just drive down the road and instead of judging the bad driving of another soul, just think about how they have probably wanted to get laid at some point in their life. Not so angry at them now, are you?

Everyone needs love.

Everyone needs affection.

And these people were out at a club, looking for fun. Maybe looking for love. And that should have ended much, much differently than it did.

I’m so scared that our world is so focused on our individual needs, we don’t take the time to recognize, rejoice in, and defend our common humanity.

And if you don’t like my sex POV, think about anything else.

Think about tripping. Everyone has probably tripped. And felt embarrassed. Maybe turned a little red.

Think about rejection. Everyone has been rejected–for a job, for a date. And it sucks and is disappointing. But we have all felt it.

So why do we try to hide it? The embarrassing stuff? The personal stuff?

Because that’s being human.

And we desperately need to see that we are all human.