MY WORLD

I didn’t know what to talk about in this post, so I finally decided to talk about something that I already wanted to share some months ago.

I like to watch videos on Youtube and I follow several youtubers, like Connor Franta. He’s an American guy who about two months ago released a video coming out, saying that he was gay.

In the video he told that for years he had been thinking that maybe he was gay, but he always tried to avoid thinking about that, because he was afraid of being different. After watching the video, I read some of the comments and some of the tweets that other youtubers tweeted him, and everybody was saying that they were so proud of him. That made me think that, although the society has progressed a lot, it still has to progress a lot more.

Years ago, when someone was gay it wasn’t even accepted and the people would have never sent him this kind of messages saying that they are proud of him, and nowadays we have reached a point in which the majority of the people accept when someone is gay, but it’s still not a completely normal thing for the society.

If you like boys or if you like girls it’s part of you, just as if you like arts or if you like sciences. You can’t choose what you like, you just like it and I don’t think we should be ashamed of our tastes. And, although is society’s fault and I put myself into the group of people who does this, I don’t think we should be proud of someone who comes out, because at the end it’s just expressing one of your tastes. When someone says that he/she is heterosexual, nobody says anything, but when someone says that he/she is homosexual is such a big deal, and it shouldn’t be that way, it should be the same for everyone.

In Connor Franta’s case, we shouldn’t be proud of him for being gay or for coming out, we should be proud of him for, after years avoiding a thought which he was afraid of, finally accepting who he is and becoming happy with himself. We should be proud of him for finally being able to sit in front of a camera and tell the world something that, as he says, he had been afraid to tell even to his own reflection in the mirror for years.

That’s why I think the society will have really progressed when we reach a point in which the people don’t need to upload videos saying they are homosexuals and they don’t need to go through all this fears for being different, because everyone should be able to be who they are, without anyone impeding that.

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