I believe in us
Brianna Binger
I Believe in humanity.
Too many times I see people shouting from rooftops that they’ve lost faith in humanity
Just to regain it again in the next hour
Too many times I have heard my friends say “ I do not like people”
What do they expect me to say to that?
Have you excluded yourself; a person, your family, and your friends, like me
Humans tend to exclude themselves from the human race, breed
Say that society is messed up without knowing the true definition
It is us
We make society and we contribute to it
People tend to forget that by “losing faith in humanity” you are losing faith in yourself
And just because someone did not pick up another’s pencil when they saw it fall
Just to get your faith back again when someone says “please”
And you just regained it? Well why did you drop it so fast to begin with
Like it is some stick that you can just pick it up and put it down
We assume, and presume
But you hardly know what you think you know
Too many times I have seen people not let the others learn from their mistakes before, they insult them in a pack
Yet mark them off as the voice for a whole race, or a whole gender, or a whole community, or a whole school, or an entire generation
We support these generalizations that make racism and sexism
But somehow it is different
That is how you justify that years late grown men and women just have not learned
Well it is not
I have done it we all have done it
But suddenly we think it is okay
Well it is not
But we feel no guilt not even shame when we meet someone who is exactly not the same
We just pull them aside “Here join my group”
Like we are all truly any different
We love these groups, desire these groups
To make us different
But make us the same, not too much the same
To make us special
But make us the norm, not too special
To live we need these groups when we can just live
But we are not all the same, are we?
Humanity can be great things; we can see, smell, hear and feel great things
But we do not believe in ourselves
For what it is worth I believe in you