Hide and Seek: September 2008

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Whats been happening????

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Good lord its been a wild 2 weeks.........barely had time to scratch my arse - but now I'm giving myself some time for ME ME ME!!!!

Someone had asked me a very very random question a couple of weeks ago - and it still makes me think.....

the question was "are you proud to be Australian??" - this question may seem like a average question to you....but have you really thought about it??

My answer to this question was what does it mean "are you proud"??? - and better yet what does it mean to "be Australian?"

I soon sat there and thought about this question (probably way too much) - but something about it annoyed me.

Why is it so important to feel proud that you belong to a country?
Why is it so important to feel proud that you belong to a religion?
Why is it so important to feel proud of being straight/Bisexual/Homosexual?

the list goes on and on and on.........

Sure - some people will disagree to this post - but it is so important to be a part of something?

I'm not proud to be Australian (that's right i said it) because i'm proud to be me..... who i am and nothing else.

Being proud of something has caused destruction to the world -

being proud of being Catholic
being proud of being Muslim
being proud of being Christian.......... and so on.......

Why cant everyone just accept each other for who they are? and stop the need to feel like they need to be a part of something else????

Haven't people realised that we are not clones of each other??

Why is it that an animal cant distinguish the difference between someone who practices Islam, and someone who practices Christianity?

Why is it that an animal cant distinguish the difference between someone who is homosexual and who is straight?

When are we going to realise that questions like "are you proud to be Australian?" construct hate.

What world do we want to live in?
What kind of world are we living in now?

As Socrates famously said
"i am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world"

Think about it.........