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My declaration of neutrality

Gunsrus

Active member
I've got something I want to share with everyone here. It's something I've never really come to terms with, but something true, nonetheless... I am a neutral person. I always have been. I'd like to explain why because never in my life have I ever understood the way I am.

I have no preference for colours. I change them according to the seasons. I wear the light ones during the spring and summer, I wear the dark ones during the autumn and winter, but my wardrobe is full of clothes and ties of all the colours of the rainbow. I value them all equally.

I like no film in particular, but all of them. The same goes for my video games and the books I read. I like all genres and authors who write well.

I think like this because of the terrible impact that preference has had on my family, on both sides. On my father's grandparents side, his parents chose to open a pretentious, self-made guest house, rather than be an honest carpenter and hospital auxiliary. They abstained from showing their only son, my father, affection. All his mother did was shake his hand when he graduated from Cambridge University and his father neither said nor did, anything.

On my mother's side, my grand parents came together because my grandmother felt that my grandfather was better because his lineage of military officers, doctors and judges was better than the more ordinary of the police inspector she was going out with. She left him for greener pastures.

This would lead to terminal interference in the life of my mother. She was held back from her career options because of her gender, and more specifically, because of the highly right wing values of my grandfather. Now, had my grandmother not chosen him, my mother might not have lived through the oppression she did. Had my grandmother wed the police inspector and had children with him, it is possible that my mother could have been more prosperous and not run away from Spain, only to marry an unhealthy man, who had asperger syndrome, epilepsy and a lifelong problem with his kidneys that he never wanted to deal with, which ultimately led to his premature death.

Now, I say that status of individuals and groups has no exceptional meaning. Actions speak louder than words and merit can be achieved by all, regardless of size, gender, class etc. I refuse to subscribe to the system of dogma and doctrine. My mother paid for the mistake my grandmother made and she is still paying for it because now she cannot leave the house unaided, due to a head injury she sustained two years ago. I have to go with her or she doesn't feel confident enough to go on her own.

That was the result of having done too much for me, for having overworked herself in my favour. Had she been able to do what she'd liked to have done in her life, the accident would never have happened. It was thanks to excessively lawful beliefs that she is in this position.

Well, I'm not going to put myself in this position because I will make a stand for myself, without adopting an extreme right wing attitude. I will strive for what I want and choose my friends because of their merit, their devotion and their strength of character, not their their lineage or prestige, for those are superficial things that don't give people any serious value, other than the ability to satiate desires both opportunistic and unfair.

This is my declaration of neutrality and one I will live by with all my heart.
 

Bamby

New member
I'll just let Aaron express my personal beliefs on the subject...

Aaron Tippin - You've Got To Stand For Something

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_s-Qk07KxA"]Aaron Tippin - You've Got To Stand For Something - YouTube[/ame]
 
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