Alright. So I work at a restaurant. I'm a server, I bring you food, make sure you're having a good time, you know the deal. Sometimes, I meet the most unique characters. I've met a Giants fan travelling home to New York who had me keep tbs on the game score. I've met a couple who were regulars and ordered the exact same meal weekly. Everyone is a character. Whether they are good or bad, main or subsidiary, the have a story to tell. Something to give you a glimpse into their head.
Well, today I met the bad ind of character. The kind of person you wish would keep the stories to themselves. Then again, if they did that we wouldn't have context to compare good people to.
This particular guy was sitting at the bar. He was watching the television, which usually is tuned to something sports related. A clip relating to Michael Sam, an openly gay football player.
That is when the character opened his mouth.
"Well, looks like football is ruined now."
Really!? That ruined football for you? An openly gay athlete? It wasn't the felons? It wasn't the drug addicts? The cheaters? The adulterers? The guys who hit their wives? The killers? None of those bothered you? None of that effects your moral compass? A man who loves another man upsets you that much?
I can't even fathom the way your mind works. Why do choices that do not effect you in the least bit upset you? Who is to say the way another adult lives his or her own life should be dictated by you?
But as I said, if it weren't for the vile and the "highly opinionated people like these, we wouldn't have that point of reference to know what a good person is. A kind person. A loving person. An accepting person.
Does this post really have a point? I don't know. Am I just venting? Seems like it. Oh well.
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