Water Off A Duck's Back
When I decided to start blogging it was just more of a gateway to express all my feelings and thoughts on what was going on around me.
Eventually I found myself over thinking this too much and I just gave up on trying to update the blog. Just the thought of sitting down and writing on how fake my friends are and how much I cry seemed so boring to me. Now I don’t really care, it’s my blog and just like with my life I can do and write about whatever I want. It’s not like anyone reads it anyway. If you’re reading this just be prepared to read a lot more about my friends and long paragraphs of complaints.
The talk of the town this week has been Caitlyn Jenner’s cover for Vanity Fair (which totally overshadowed Violet Chachki’s win on RuPaul’s Drag Race). Personally I applaud Jenner for being brave enough to finally let go and just be who she really is and be happy with herself. It takes a lot of courage to stand in front of the world and say “this is who I am whether you like it or not”. I can’t even go out the house with a full face of make up without worrying what people might say about me.
My mom once told “Not everyone you meet will like you for the person you are” and she was right. I’ve had a lot of people go in out of my life because they don’t like the person I am whether it’s my attitude or my sexual preferences. I don’t mind, I’d rather have less people in my life who actually like me for who I am than to be surrounded by fake people who will never be happy with who I am and just end up talking bad about me. I’ve learned to accept the fact that not everybody will like me for being gay and being comfortable with the person I am. I had my dad walk out of my life at age 14 because he couldn’t accept the fact that his son was gay. I’ve been fired form a job because certain people couldn’t handle the fact that I was gay and felt more comfortable using the women’s restroom. I had a lot of people love me at my old job and accept the fact that I was gay, some of my female co-workers would even tell me to go to the restroom with them. It’s actually very sad to see how many people out there are so close minded that they would rather have someone loose their job just because they’re not okay with someone who is comfortable and fully open about his sexual preferences.
Yes, some of you might say that people of a certain age might not be comfortable with homosexuality due to how they where raised. That still doesn’t excuse them for being close-minded in a world where we now have cars that park on their own and have smart phones that talk back to you. So to come to me and try to excuse them with that is nothing but crap. The sad thing is that it’s not just older people who are close-minded; I have people who are my age who still cannot accept people from the LGBTQ community. Thankfully we currently have people such as Cindy Lauper, Lavern Cox and Lady Gaga among a list of people who not only support the LGBTQ community but also try to spread awareness on accepting the gay community.
In this life you will always have haters and people will always try to put you down one way or another. All you can do is ignore them and always keep your head held up high and never let any one see you sweat. Like Jinkx Monsoon once said “Water off a duck’s back”