I have never felt this way before…. I guess sometimes it is good being an observer of life. People say that life is a choice. What they actually mean is … life is choice so long if you choose to live by the norms of the society. Unfortunately, this creates a boundary to the way a person can choose to live. Now…. Aren’t we being hypocrites by saying something and meaning something else?
After a stressful day at work…. to rethink life a bit…. I decided to take the longer way home. Instead of requesting my sister to pick me up, I took the train. Surprisingly, the train was half empty though it was a working day. I didn’t have to rush for a seat but instead I had the privilege to choose one…hmmm…how lucky. I decided to sit in front of two gentlemen, who dressed as though they were going for a ballroom party. As I was about to sit one of them smiled at me, I crafted a smile showing him I actually had a slight dimple….
As usual my eyes were straying from left to right …checking out the chicks that got in and out of the train. Suddenly, a gesture in front of me halted my straying eyes and brought it to a focus. The two gentlemen sitting in front of me started performing weird gestures among themselves. When I notice the action, their hands were already locked together. Minutes later, one of them leaned over the other’s shoulder and gently rubbed his partner’s chest. In return, the other partner grasp his thighs and slowly moved upwards……ok I won’t describe the scene further ….as I know some of you are already feeling disgusted and uncomfortable.
Well to tell you the truth, at that time I felt the same way. However, the saying the first glance never tells the truth about anything is certainly true. I realized later that evening that I was wrong to feel that way. I only felt that way because I was brought up with the heavy influence of the society on me. The society prefers to see love as being a commune feeling that is only felt between two different genders. The love here does not refer to the love felt in a family or the love felt in a friendship but it refers to the love felt by a soul that recognizes its true partner.The sad part is we have maintained the word love for the love felt between a man and a woman but had changed the word to gay or lesbian only because the same love was felt between two same genders.
If only everyone had seen love as a feeling felt by the soul towards another soul, there won’t be an issue of gender arising.Life is short, we probably only live it once…. Hence, it is important we make the right choices in life rather than just following the norm which might not always seem right for us. Nevertheless, it is also important to respect others around you…. Hence guys and girls stop smooching in the trains with your partners whether if they are from the same or different gender. For god sake, don’t make your love a public affair when it is suppose to be a private and valued relationship.
At this point in life, I can only tell you one thing………..
In life, we will only meet the people we need to meet, and everyone that we meet will teach us a valuable knowledge that will slowly unveil to us the reason of this birth…..look beyond the physical matter and you will find the true beauty of all relationships.
After a stressful day at work…. to rethink life a bit…. I decided to take the longer way home. Instead of requesting my sister to pick me up, I took the train. Surprisingly, the train was half empty though it was a working day. I didn’t have to rush for a seat but instead I had the privilege to choose one…hmmm…how lucky. I decided to sit in front of two gentlemen, who dressed as though they were going for a ballroom party. As I was about to sit one of them smiled at me, I crafted a smile showing him I actually had a slight dimple….
As usual my eyes were straying from left to right …checking out the chicks that got in and out of the train. Suddenly, a gesture in front of me halted my straying eyes and brought it to a focus. The two gentlemen sitting in front of me started performing weird gestures among themselves. When I notice the action, their hands were already locked together. Minutes later, one of them leaned over the other’s shoulder and gently rubbed his partner’s chest. In return, the other partner grasp his thighs and slowly moved upwards……ok I won’t describe the scene further ….as I know some of you are already feeling disgusted and uncomfortable.
Well to tell you the truth, at that time I felt the same way. However, the saying the first glance never tells the truth about anything is certainly true. I realized later that evening that I was wrong to feel that way. I only felt that way because I was brought up with the heavy influence of the society on me. The society prefers to see love as being a commune feeling that is only felt between two different genders. The love here does not refer to the love felt in a family or the love felt in a friendship but it refers to the love felt by a soul that recognizes its true partner.The sad part is we have maintained the word love for the love felt between a man and a woman but had changed the word to gay or lesbian only because the same love was felt between two same genders.
If only everyone had seen love as a feeling felt by the soul towards another soul, there won’t be an issue of gender arising.Life is short, we probably only live it once…. Hence, it is important we make the right choices in life rather than just following the norm which might not always seem right for us. Nevertheless, it is also important to respect others around you…. Hence guys and girls stop smooching in the trains with your partners whether if they are from the same or different gender. For god sake, don’t make your love a public affair when it is suppose to be a private and valued relationship.
At this point in life, I can only tell you one thing………..
In life, we will only meet the people we need to meet, and everyone that we meet will teach us a valuable knowledge that will slowly unveil to us the reason of this birth…..look beyond the physical matter and you will find the true beauty of all relationships.
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Hmmm.. Interesting !!!
it is nice....n intresting
I had the felling of disgust with homosexual people before too. But, after reading further into it and know a couple of really nice gay people, i don't think they are any different form normal people. I'm not gay, so as long as they don't disturb me sexually i don't see nayhting wrong in it. Interesting post btw
hey ... guys try to sign up for a google id so that it gives u some identity here...anyway thanks for the comments... really appreciate it ... it is never easy to have an interest different from what others think is normal ... and protect it. Anyway i am not gay ... i am in a love which is a bit on sided .... :)
I have one question, would you feel the same way if you see a straight couple making out on the train? And what's the point of weddings when it is actually a public affair?
To me, people are so nosey and at the same limited with stereotypical beliefs that make them paranoid with public displays of affection! What's wrong with being affectionate to a loved one, as long as you don't take it to the extremes? The 2 men were not ripping off their clothes and having sex in public, were they?
When a man displays his affection to another man in public is considered taboo and out of order, but if the same thing happens between a man and a woman, it's absolutely fine, what kind of an unfair world we live in!
Society is such, expecially in the East that anything gay is wrong, even my mum thinks that being gay is just one thing, that is( I laugh when I say this!)sodomy..... which is totally the wrong concept and thought, we are human beings as well and have the same feelings of any man and woman. And as you said, it'a just being connected with another soul.
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Your story was extremely touching. Your expressiveness demonstrates what an incredible connection you had with this other person and I can sympathize and relate to every word.
I am not gay .. but i am saying its not wrong to accept gays ...
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