Priorities & Thoughts

I hate having priorities because sometimes that means I have to deny my inspiration's desire to draw and be creative, to, in this case, write poems. But on the other hand, those priorities are ultimately good. I'm choosing to do my poems tonight and skipping small group so that I can see some of my friends tomorrow that I haven't seen since July. I'm really excited about that and I'm also excited to for my art because I was given my art culminating today and I've got a great idea that I think should work perfectly with it!!

I've got two quick thoughts now before I get to my poems:

Last Friday, after coming home from youth, I turned on the TV even though I was tired. The movie Remember the Titans happened to be on. I had never actually seen it and I figured that since last year I drew Denzel Washington from the cover of that movie, I should probably watch it so I know what it's about if someone were to ask me.

As I watched, I realized that its setting took place in years past when racism was far more prominent and ubiquitous. And I noticed that in myself the idea of a society divided by our skin colours, was very foreign to me. Even despite the fact that I've always been taught of how things once were. Although there is value in knowing and experiencing how things once were, I think that that foreignness is generally a very good thing because I can't, and I would never want to, imagine a society that lacks the equality and respect for the diversity we humans have.

Second, on the way home from school today, I wondered what the people from Biblical times would think about how much we've advanced in technology since then. I think that if they could see what we have now most people would either feel a little bit of both fascination, or simply fright. But as interested as we are in moving forward, I think we're just as interested in how people used to live. And though change, for some, causes difficulties, I think we need to appreciate how we are always changing.

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