A passion, or four.

Hello and welcome or welcome back to another stormy night in the shire. Today we’re onto the fifth day of the September blog challenge. As you may have guessed from the title today we’re talking about passions. But before we get into it, today I’d like to take a minute to remember the past. While also acknowledging the present.

Freedom really isn’t free. It never has been. I don’t talk about these things because I don’t feel I have the knowledge to, just in case anyone was ever curious. I try to keep this a neutral space, talking openly about subjects I feel I have grounds to stand on. Hence it being chronic illness, love, and relationship shit along with my experience with the church. Nothing outside my wheelhouse. But I’m forever open to learning. To attempt to prevent a repeat. I don’t know, I just felt like I should let you guys know about that…

Pardon the tone shift but lets get into the question for today; What are you passionate about and why?

I actually have a few different answers and I will give brief explanations for each.

Mens mental health – I have watched many of my family members, uncles, grandfather, father, partners, my brother. Friends. Struggle with their mental health. If you’ve been around for a minute or at least read an old post or two you know how I feel about that saying of “man up” or “boys don’t cry” and how it feels so counter productive and I hate it. I obviously can’t say from personal experience as I’m not a man, but I grew up with a father with that mentality and I have a brother. I’ve witnessed plenty enough to know. Men deserve proper mental health care, they deserve to be properly heard and to feel properly. Long story short, I could do a whole post about this and I fucking hate it. Because men are meant to feel nothing while women are expected to be too emotional yet it’s mocked when we are and blamed on our hormones. Again I could do a whole rant on this but I’m trying to keep this neat and slick. The reason I’m so damn passionate about this is because we have to STOP the cycle! We have to break the cycle. We have to do something. Humanity was never meant to be this divided, it couldn’t have been? I don’t believe that, I don’t know what I believe but I don’t believe that.
Protecting children – Children are little humans! They are not property, they are not objects, they do not have to have the exact personality that you want them to have and they are allowed to have big feelings and make mistakes! It is their first time living! Fuck man! Stop expecting that kid to come out of the womb with the maturity of a million year old person! And maybe if you want them to treat you nicely, go back to the big three! Treat others the way you want to be treated. Remember that book, monkey see monkey do? Yeah, it’s because kids are mirrors, they’re sponges. And for god sake stop believing your partner over the kid, what is wrong with you? Oh and there’s more ways to abuse your kids than beating them by the way, maybe hear your kids out when they try to tell you what’s going wrong… I’m very passionate about protecting our children because I wasn’t protected. Because I knew kids who weren’t protected. Because I still fight with those warning signs and I still question everything. What could have been done differently/ was it really that bad?
Human Rights – before you freak out let me explain. I believe in black lives matter, I believe trans lives matter, I believe every person matters. I believe in women’s rights. We should have the right to our own body. To the healthcare we deserve. I believe Black, Hispanic, Latinio, Indigious, everyone (I know I left a lot of groups out there I’m sorry) should have EQUAL rights. I believe that Trans people should be able to walk into a bathroom their comfortable in and have the affirming care they need and DESERVE! I believe that the queer community should be able to get married in whatever state they want. Equal rights for all. Human rights. We all bleed red. I’m passionate about this because I don’t think we’ve come this far to go back to the hypothetical stone ages. A person is a person. The plot was lost a long time ago, and I still believe the world could be a better place, I just don’t know how we’d get there. But I know other people share that belief.
Finally to end on a lighter note, more of a guess I’m sure you guys can guess what I’m about to say… I’m passionate about Taylor Swift and music in general. – I love music. It got me through some of my darkest nights. Still does. I grew up listening to Taylor Swift as a child. She was one of the few none christian artists I listened to during the pastor’s daughter era of my life. She truly is Mother. That and Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed today’s post. I know it was a bit all over the place and pretty heavy. I hope to see you on the next one. Drop something you’re passionate about in the comments below, don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe for more. We are still trying to reach the 50 sub goal on the site before the end of the year.

As always stay safe, love hard, protect your peace <3

Xoxo Hails.