Welcome to akaMaytag!

Welcome to akaMaytag!

This is about my journey to discover just who in the hell I am. This has been a constant struggle throughout my life. I almost never felt like I really fit in with any group. I can be part of and contribute, but, when it comes down to it, I am an outsider, and just maybe, that is what I am meant to be. Bear with me and I will try to explain.

For most of my life I felt lost and invisible no matter the situation. I have never been a fan of labels whether they be self-given or societal. To me, if you label yourself as this, you are divided from that. Too many feel the necessity to be against “opposite labels” and that has never made sense to me.

What if, I agree with both of you and, I disagree with both of you? Not everything, just the pieces that exclude others, or that are unkind, or oppose considering different thinking. No matter how hard we try to deny it, every single one of us has bias and pre-judge others? Unless of course you are Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, or Gandhi.       

If you are a radical believer in anything, whether it is political, religious, or even human or animal rights, you are probably aggressively against “whatever the other side is”. During a time when I volunteered with an animal shelter, I would see posts on the volunteer page. Loving, caring people who willingly gave their time to help animals wanting to and saying “we should, I’d like to”, “hang, beat, kill” people who were believed to mistreat an animal. They may or may not even know what the real story was.

It is one thing to know what you are willing to die for but, something completely different to justify deep-seated hate for others because of a belief. I am not saying that justice always looks the same because circumstances are rarely the same. I am simply saying to be open-minded and know the facts.

I say all of this not because I know more or have figured anything out. I say it to create conversation and dialog. And to say, we are all in this together and we can learn to live cooperatively or succumb to our own little existences. This is the bear with me part…I am getting to it.

Love and respect,

Maytag

 

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