What we don’t take seriously we don’t change, that’s why it is hard for me to be around people who need to make everything into a joke. If you don’t believe something is serious then you don’t have to be responsible for changing your views and actions in real life. If you don’t believe racism in any form is serious and wrong, you don’t have to take legitimate racism seriously, if you don’t believe ableism is real, you don’t have to take disabled peoples experience seriously and accommodate their very real needs, if you don’t believe homophobia is real then you don’t have to take lgbtq peoples experiences seriously.
A lot of my life I’ve been told I take things too seriously, when I hear the pain of others I take it seriously, I don’t think to try to make a joke, or to deem others experience as not that serious, if I hadn’t taken people seriously I wouldn’t have changed my mind about so many wrong beliefs I held, some peoples stories broke my heart and changed the way I thought, they reminded me LOVE and empathy should be my first response to others. I’m coming to believe many people don’t take others realities and pain seriously enough. If we had to live others stories, we would want to be believed, we would want to be listened to and validated, we’d want to be met with love and if it required……action, but if others valid experience is a joke to you or not that big of a deal to you, or you believe they’re pain to be exaggerated or not that important because it’s not your experience, then you’ll do nothing, stand for nothing, and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will change. Peoples stories and reality shouldn’t be your quiet inside joke, or a bit of gossip, others stories should be an opportunity to learn and grow as a human, we don’t need to have experienced others reality to listen and meet people with love, and to take them and their pain seriously.
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