So our issue was equality.
I’m white, blonde, and blue-eyed. How could I relate? I couldn’t find an easy, blatantly obvious issue of inequality I’d faced in my life, until I really started thinking. I suddenly realized that struggle for equality really is something that EVERYONE goes through some way which can greatly affect them.
I started thinking about my interaction with other people, and how I struggle for equality, and then it hit me: school. Being in the International Baccalaureate program (IB), it is ALWAYS a game of survival of the fittest and who can be the best. People are looked at quickly and instantly judged as being superior or inferior to others just based on how they look or act. I feel like I am one of those people who are judged, automatically tossed off because I’m not in the math club or not always get straight A’s or maybe not appearing like the genius of the class. I even had a teacher kiddingly say, “You’re bright, but sometimes you’ve gotta see if anyone’s home,” and knocked on his head. I know it was playful, but it definitely ignited something in me.
I knew I wasn’t alone. I’ve heard a lot of other kids talk about others as if the others’ IQ’s were 40. Sometimes really mean stuff. However, after further reflection, I came to find that even I was one of those judging people, immediately casting people off as not the brightest or just weird or some other negative excuse I could make as to disassociate myself from them, and I was surprised. The LAST thing I want to be is the kind of person I despise.
I knew I had found my own, personal story of equality to make this project even more special to me, despite how much it already was being with some of my favorite people, being involved with theatre, and giving all it comes out to be to charity.
And regardless of my story, your story, or your mom’s story, we really do all have the same struggles in friends, family, school, work, and love. So embrace it, and everyone. It’s just life…what more could you ask for, right?
I’m white, blonde, and blue-eyed. How could I relate? I couldn’t find an easy, blatantly obvious issue of inequality I’d faced in my life, until I really started thinking. I suddenly realized that struggle for equality really is something that EVERYONE goes through some way which can greatly affect them.
I started thinking about my interaction with other people, and how I struggle for equality, and then it hit me: school. Being in the International Baccalaureate program (IB), it is ALWAYS a game of survival of the fittest and who can be the best. People are looked at quickly and instantly judged as being superior or inferior to others just based on how they look or act. I feel like I am one of those people who are judged, automatically tossed off because I’m not in the math club or not always get straight A’s or maybe not appearing like the genius of the class. I even had a teacher kiddingly say, “You’re bright, but sometimes you’ve gotta see if anyone’s home,” and knocked on his head. I know it was playful, but it definitely ignited something in me.
I knew I wasn’t alone. I’ve heard a lot of other kids talk about others as if the others’ IQ’s were 40. Sometimes really mean stuff. However, after further reflection, I came to find that even I was one of those judging people, immediately casting people off as not the brightest or just weird or some other negative excuse I could make as to disassociate myself from them, and I was surprised. The LAST thing I want to be is the kind of person I despise.
I knew I had found my own, personal story of equality to make this project even more special to me, despite how much it already was being with some of my favorite people, being involved with theatre, and giving all it comes out to be to charity.
And regardless of my story, your story, or your mom’s story, we really do all have the same struggles in friends, family, school, work, and love. So embrace it, and everyone. It’s just life…what more could you ask for, right?
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