Food For Thought!!!

[MelissaAnn]

Happy sunday everyone! I really need to talk about something. With the amount of news lately about the transgender community I feel something needs to be said...

Change takes time. It will not happen overnight. Just ask Gondi or Dr. Martin Luther King. We as a community have to come together just like these two great people and live eat and breathe love, understanding and acceptance. How can we expect anyone to accept us if we don't accept them? This is the way I see it.... All our acts of love and acceptance are pebbles.... Everytime we show this it's like trying to throw a pebble across a lake. You won't reach the other shore but it will land in the lake and make a splash. It doesn't make a big splash but it does cause a ripple. Eventually that ripple will reach the shore on the other side of the lake. One by one the pebbles will pile up to the point that you will be able to walk across that lake to reach the other shore. This will not happen fast but eventually it will.... I say love, acceptance and understanding will get us there....

Love,

Melissa Ann

[gennee]

Well said, Melissa.

[Sunderland]

Some people have big dreams of changing the world. I've never been one of them. I do what I can to help those around me and build friendships with them, regardless of what sort of views we may diverge on. I'd like to believe I'm making the world a better place in my own small way, and small things can be very powerful and have much wider reaching effects than people often realize. If nothing else, you've made a difference in one person's life, and that's enough, really.

Just my general outlook on this sort of thing. Not specific to trans issues. But I really believe the way you create change is by being the example of what you want to see.