IF I AM TOLERANT:
I accept you for who you are, NOT what I think you should be.
I accept your gender, your ethnicity, your orientation, your humanity AS IT IS,
NOT as I think it oughta be.
I am not the judge and jury of YOUR human beingness.
THAT is WAY ABOVE MY PAYGRADE.
What I am is a human being just as you are doing my best to do my best...
for the rest of my life, and I am having enough trouble keeping myself in line
to spend a whole lot of time trying to critique you.
MY JOURNEY IS MINE AND YOURS IS YOURS.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE THE SAME. How boring would that be.
YOU serve your purpose and I serve mine and TOGETHER, we serve the world,
and all the rest of humanity the best we can, imperfectly but hey...
SO, exactly when did God die and put YOU in charge.
Yeh, thought so. Me neither.
So let's just get on with doing our best, and leave the judging to whoever created us.
CAUSE when all is said and done...IT WILL BE said and done and judgement day ain't gonna find EITHER of us in charge.
Have you ever noticed that the beauty of a symphony orchestra is when ALL the instruments play
IN HARMONY? Ballet, Opera, it is all the same. Ditchdigging. More of the same.
So what? The job gets done and best when everyone gets to do their part without rancor and arguing over petty bullshit.
HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE, Unless you are the Manson Family or the Addams Family.
Love means never having to be an asshole.
Sort of.
I accept you for who you are, NOT what I think you should be.
I accept your gender, your ethnicity, your orientation, your humanity AS IT IS,
NOT as I think it oughta be.
I am not the judge and jury of YOUR human beingness.
THAT is WAY ABOVE MY PAYGRADE.
What I am is a human being just as you are doing my best to do my best...
for the rest of my life, and I am having enough trouble keeping myself in line
to spend a whole lot of time trying to critique you.
MY JOURNEY IS MINE AND YOURS IS YOURS.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE THE SAME. How boring would that be.
YOU serve your purpose and I serve mine and TOGETHER, we serve the world,
and all the rest of humanity the best we can, imperfectly but hey...
SO, exactly when did God die and put YOU in charge.
Yeh, thought so. Me neither.
So let's just get on with doing our best, and leave the judging to whoever created us.
CAUSE when all is said and done...IT WILL BE said and done and judgement day ain't gonna find EITHER of us in charge.
Have you ever noticed that the beauty of a symphony orchestra is when ALL the instruments play
IN HARMONY? Ballet, Opera, it is all the same. Ditchdigging. More of the same.
So what? The job gets done and best when everyone gets to do their part without rancor and arguing over petty bullshit.
HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE, Unless you are the Manson Family or the Addams Family.
Love means never having to be an asshole.
Sort of.
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