Hi,
Today I want to talk to
you about a series that I am watching currently called “13 reasons
why”. You might have heard of it but I strongly recommend it to you
if you haven't. I know it's a teenage series and that not everyone is
going to like it because it's too kitschy but I find it good.
It's about a teenage girl
in high school that kills herself because of what people have done to
her at her school. And this girl before dying she has recorded
herself talking about why she chose to kill herself. So through out
the series, that is composed of 13 episodes, we see each reason why
she chose to end her life. And of course I won't spoil it for you so
I'll let you watch it for you to learn by yourself what happened. But
as I watched this series it brought to me a lot of emotions.
It makes me think of how
crazy our world is and how rude people can be. Sometimes one little
action or word can destroy someones life. With internet information
gets passed on quickly and we all need to be careful about it. People
who don't feel well in their skin often don't show it and pretend
that everything is okay and that's why we rarely notice it.
High school can be
pleasant years but it can also be horrible ones for others. Bullying
and mocking is still present even though sometimes we deny it. Maybe
one small reflection can hurt someone, so before speaking or acting
think of the consequences.
It also brings up the
subject of homophobia. Gays are often the target of all this
bullying. And I learnt a couple days ago that homophobia in France
has gone up 20%. Do you find this normal? Don't people have the right
to love who they want? Some people find it not natural but what is
natural? Who put up this general idea that men should love women and
women should love men. It's absurd. Maybe there are more straight
people in the world but we don't need to impose it to everyone. What
if it was the opposite and being gay was normal. Society has maybe
evolved but some ideologies have just not gone away.
Here is a commercial where
we see a world where being gay is normal and being straight isn't
normal.
I find this commercial
very interesting. And I think it touches people and makes people
think. We need to be tolerant because being narrow minded will lead
us nowhere.
“To
be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you
something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
