How could love be wrong?

pride

/prʌɪd/

noun

~ confidence and self-respect as expressed by members of a group, typically one that has been socially marginalized, on the basis of their shared identity, culture, and experience ~

Well that’s seems pretty easy to understand.

You know the time when you first learnt the alphabets in kindergarten and you were told the letter ‘A’ sounds a certain way, but as you grew older you began to learn new words, words with the letter ‘A’ where it sounded nothing like you were told it would. You accepted that pretty easy right, because you understood that it was okay because it was still as important a part of the word.

That’s how love is. It doesn’t have to fit into any set definition, it doesn’t have to be like it is in the movies, or how you were told it was supposed to be, it can be any way, and it can be anyone. It isn’t important if it makes others feel uncomfortable because the people in love are happy and that’s really just how it should be, that’s really all that matters. It like pineapple and pizza, the arguments are pointless cause everyone loves different things (different people) and that’s okay. Just that arguments like these might actually really hurt someone and are often way too insensitive.

It’s really sad that people still have to use phrases like ‘coming out of the closet’ when really, they shouldn’t for any reason be in it. We have overcome way too many prejudiced thoughts to even slightly make assumptions about something as vibrant and unique as a person’s sexuality. Why do people still consider being heterosexual as normal and the rest are well LGBT+ yada yada? I’m sure many don’t even know what comes after the ‘T’ and that’s not nice. It really isn’t. But that’s okay. It is okay if you are willing to understand once you do know what it means. Okay if you try to understand what it means and how it’s completely normal. Okay if you understand it’s not a choice. Okay if you don’t make assumptions, call derogatory names and make it tougher than it is. Okay if you take genuine efforts to make it easy for people to come out of this age old stigma. If you know what it means talk to your parents about it, they might be uncomfortable but that’s how it will start out. Especially when it’s easy for you, when you have the privilege of not having to be in the closet. We try really hard to talk to our parents about this and they have opened up to it, not completely but at least they are trying to understand, and well my mom might have cried while watching ‘Ek ladki ko dekha toh aisa laga’.

Think about it like Narnia. It doesn’t have to be the LGBTQ+ community always coming out of the closet, fighting ‘their’ battles, crying themselves to sleep because they are too tired trying to fit in, too tired trying to always put front a confident self to be considered, to be accepted. Maybe the rest of us need to open doors, understand, empathize and honestly just have normal human decency. That’s not too much to ask. The world can be so much more beautiful with a little more colour.

Love is something that should get a fair chance to be a fairy tale (not only the stereotypical ones of course). No one should have to doubt love, no one should have to build walls and force themselves to not enjoy vulnerability at its purest self. Everyone deserves love and everyone deserves to love the way they want to :’)

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This is a really nice article to understand what LGBTQIA+ means and if you want to know how beautiful love is and how different people experience it do give it a read.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/style/lgbtq-gender-language.html

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