Judgment - 8:00-3:00

You’ve poked fun at the idiosyncrasies of others more than once before. Whether it was at the fact they walk around with checkered shoes or they need extra help in a class. I wish I were as perfect as you. I wish I could be without any flaws, immune to discrimination. However, as it stands I am a skinny geek who has been cut down a fare share. And I can assure you that as great an act you present the checker shoed, green haired skid with the pin-infested jacket is laughing at it. You lack the courage to stray from the norm so you point and giggle at the ones who do. All that makes you a “unique snowflake” are your fingerprints and what you do in your cheerleading outfit in front of the mirror when no one is home. The real you exists only behind your layer of make-up and your Quiksilver wardrobe. Can you imagine what one day at high school would be like if the norm was no longer? If it were “cool” to be overweight and mentally handicapped? Where the “Skids” made fun of you for having the minimum amount of flare (Office Space)? Would you be able to handle it? Or would you gain weight so you could join the fat kids in burning the jocks? Would fear of being discriminated make you go so far as to dye your hair neon in hopes of being accepted by the groups you now whisper insults about?
Does another’s weight affect you in anyway? Hell, they are being forced to buy two seats on a plane just so it is convenient for you. The gays are being allowed to marry! Oh Lord no! Get your torches and pitchforks; let’s go straighten these guys out. At the risk of being didactic, something my Amazing English teacher Mrs. Layton said never to do, I think we should all be weird and accept each other’s oddities. But as it stands, we are trapped in a society where “gay” has become a synonym for stupid and it doesn’t look like it’s going to change any time soon, as you would probably laugh if it did. So get a good rest because tomorrow our Judgment runs from 8:00 to 3:00.

-Teck

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