Is it a Crime to be Different?

Hi  old pals!

What ya up to?

Today the most fantastic thing happened. I had the opportunity to eat Fruit Loops!

Might I say that they are quite delicious. They are also really colorful. My parents do not usually purchase breakfast cereal so this was a real treat.

Anyways I just wanted to share some excitement from my life but know getting onto my topic.

What is the one thing that all teenagers avoid and fear like the plague? What is the one insecurity that deep down inside each human being has experienced  And for those of you who claim you have not, might I just add that I do not believe you  

 The fear to stand out... The fear of rejection...The fear to be DIFFERENT.

Why do I fear being different? If I am supposed to accomplish anything in life don't I need to stand out and let my voice be heard?

Recently while I sitting in my constitutional studies class. The teacher was gone and so I thought party on!

right?

Well I was obviously wrong when when we had a substitute teacher and we were forced to endure a black and white film from the fifties.

I am sure that the whole class could hear the audible sigh that went on in my mind.

Yet as the movie went on it really caught my interest. It was about a Jury of 12 men that were supposed to decide the out come of a murder trial. An eighteen year old boy had been accused of killing his father and through out the whole court case all fingers were pointed at him.

As the twelve men gathered to decide a verdict eleven of the men pronounced the boy guilty but only one declared that he was not guilty.

In-case you are not aware there needs to be an all or nothing vote in one direction or another. Meaning that one mans vote hindered the jury from pronouncing a verdict.

It must not have been easy for that one man to stand up and say what he thought when everyone else in the room was voting a different way. But if he had gone with the crowd that innocent boy would have been sentenced to death.

One mans decision to be different saved the life of that one teenage boy and the life of his future posterity.

We can learn a valuable lesson from this... Black and White films are Fantastic! (well at least this one was...)

May I add that I think that we each can make a difference if we are willing to be different.

However if we lay in bed and watch I love Lucy re- runs all day with a package of double chocolate rush cookies and a half eaten doughnut we will not be able to help that one person that needs our help that day.


While the rest of the world might bombard you with certain ways that you need to look and act, just tell yourself that you are a child of a King; a Heavenly Father who loves you and you are going to stand against the wind and make a difference in the world for better.

Well I hope that yall have a prodigious day!

Remember who ya aren't !

TTFN!!!!!!!

To kill or not To Kill ... The Mocking Bird

Many Schools are trying to get rid of To Kill A Mocking Bird. 

Why?

Lets see shall we. I guess the answer is kinda simple ( although nothing is simple in the world we live in, just look at politics).

Political Correctness.

In the minds of many people they are so afraid of offending anyone that they are willing to cut out a piece of valuable merit literature that is beneficial to teens and young adults. This book teaches the correct principle of a Christ centered attribute “how to love your neighbor as yourself”.

There are many ways that this is demonstrated. One of my personal favorite is when Atticus is appointed to be Tom’s Lawyer in a court case. Because Tom is Black and the Ewells are white it is thought that Atticus would not put up a good fight against the prosecutor. We find that it is actually quite the contrary.

He is like superman coming to the rescue of the poor helpless kitten about to get bulldozed by the train. Only this time Superman knows he cannot get to the kitten in time, but instead of giving up he flies ever faster and will not give up without a fight.

In the end just like the kitten gets ka-splatted by the train Tom is accused of being guilty. Only this time everyone knows that he is innocent.

As I read this I wondered what must have been going through Atticus’s mind. He knew that in the end of the court case he would lose, but what I think he realized was the bigger picture.

He knew that when he died he would have to stand in front of his maker and take full responsibility for not protecting an innocent man. That was a burden that he had no desire to carry.

In other words he might have lost the court case, but in the end Tom and Atticus would win the Heavenly Court case which is what really counts.   

u Saved my life I am eternally
Grateful...

So maybe I need to rethink the ending of the superman analogy. I guess in the eternal scheme of things super man was not able to save the kitten from the train, but he was able to take the kitten to the hospital and it had a successful recovery.

 There how was that...Seeing a parallel?

No…Well maybe I still need to work on it but ya get the jest of what I am saying.

To Continue another example was Scout trying to understand Boo Radley. She and her brother have had a deep obsession with Boo Radley and have heard many rumors about him.

She says 

 "Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

This is Scout realizing that those old rumors about Boo were indeed not true.

In my own life I see myself judging people unfairly whether it is the way they dress or how they acted the one time I met them. But what this book helps point out is that were are all people and we all have feelings. We are each just trying to do the best we can in life and go about our own business. Life already throws enough challenges without having to worry about people thinking nasty untrue things about us.

This quote is so tender because Scout is finally seeing Boo as the Savior would see him and that is the important thing.

Well folks in closing I just want to say that I am not a hundred percent sure why anyone would want to band this book from schools, but I for one am extremely grateful for being able to read it. 

So toodaloo! Be fat and happy!

I am going to go watch a movie and put off doing the rest of my homework!