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Apr 25th 2008

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Hi I don't really post many journals but I felt that I had to post something on this, and thank you for looking at my opinion. You can comment if you want but I might not respond.

Today of April 25th is the day of silence. It happened at my school because of course their will always be gays and people who don't like the idea of day of silence. Well as the Day of Silence happened past my first hour, a Day of Loudness happened. Some or most of the people who were doing the day of silence were outraged at could not keep in their voices and spoke. The Day of Loudness is the people who don't like the day of silence and, as far as I know, is the first time a group spoke out against the day of silence. So as my day progressed to my lunch time that’s when I learned it was the Day of Silence today and the Day of Loudness. So while sitting at lunch and really not eating, I'm just to lazy to go and get some food :\ , and I learned of the Day of Loudness. So I went past my four hour and to my fifth. While sitting in my fifth hour I heard some more views on the day and peoples opinions, we were doing a poetry coffee house thing in the library. So as I sat there not really wanting to be there I picked up a book of poems, Where the sidewalk ends. So as people went, I read. I came across a poem where it talked about turning off the light and were all the same. It really kind of made me think about it after I read it. So I went to 6th hour next and then our French teacher allowed us to talk about this and get it out of our systems so we don't fight each other after school or have a fight develop. So during most of the conversation I sat there and listened. At the end I left a comment. I’m not sure if I was right or wrong, I didn't care. I said that people need to have an open mind and not think that their way is supreme. Yes it was hurtful to the Day of Silence people and the Day of Silence was hurtful to the other people started the Day of Loudness, and that people should just have a open mind because people are changing, whenever you give a action you'll eventually get a reaction back be it bad or good. I am neutral on this because I'll support the Day of Silence people but I want to talk as well and that’s why I think of the poem. What if we just turned off the lights only thought of everyone as the same and that we are all different and unique, but we also all share the same pain, endurance, failure, winning, joy, depression, and the same other situations and emotions.

Yes it might be wrong to be neutral but it’s also right at the same time. Soak up the knowledge, pain, suffering, and happiness of the people's opinion. But I wish that things could be different, that there was that switch where we could just turn off the light and see everyone as the same person but also as a bunch of people who live and deal with different things.

So as I sit here in my 7th hour, this may seem stupid but the next Day of Silence/(if it happens again)Day of Loudness, I'll treat that day as the Day of Darkness to show that I'll accept anyone's view and that I'm here to listen and that I'm going to support the gay's but I'm going to talk because to me I like to talk and that sometimes staying silent may not get your point across or maybe it will, I'm not sure if I'm wrong for thinking this way or not. It really just depends on you and the power that you have to stand up for what you believe in. So now I'm going to go home and maybe draw now, just depends on me. :\