When I was younger, I remember being told ‘treat others the way you’d like to be treated’.

And I did that, despite many others not doing it for me.

But I continued on, cause surely not everyone’s like that. Surely, when I grow up, everyone will understand that kindness and acceptance is a must. Surely everyone will know that that’s the baseline to a healthy society.

When I was younger, I learnt from public tv, which is available to all-within the UK-with a TV set and connection, that it is wrong to discriminate against people for how they talked, looked or for just being themselves.

And I understood.

Even though I lived in a small village without much diversity. I understood.

When I was younger, my mum told me ‘it’s whats inside that counts’, and even though I was small child, I understood.

And now, I see on the news, everyday, stories of people being murdered, attacked and discriminated against for the colour of their skin or their ethnicity or their sexuality and gender identity and it makes me sick.

If a child can understand that it’s wrong to discriminate and hate, why can’t the many, many adults carrying out these horrific attacks?

But I know that not everyone is brought up to be kind or with kindness around them and that’s really sad.

But if these people were shown kindness, love and acceptance before their pain got too heavy to bear, before they started lashing out and hurting others. Before they built up walls of discrimination out of fear.

If we were all educated equally on equality, the world over.

I’m sure the world would be a happier place.

A place where everyone is equal, no matter your ethnicity, religion, sexuality or gender identity.

A place where people are seen by what’s inside, the spirit, rather than the outside, the physical.

Maybe it’s just a dream,…..”But never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one’s time, for dreams are realities in waiting. In dreams we plant the seeds of the future”.

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I hope everyone’s having a wonderful day, evening, night or morning and are living discrimination free 😊

I know this isn’t possible for everyone, so if you are living with discrimination, please try to know that you are stronger than the hate and that it won’t last forever. Even if the kind of hate you are experiencing feels like it will never end or it’s become part of how you feel about yourself, you will make it out. You are so strong and you are loved, even if it’s not coming from those who are supposed to love and support you, YOU ARE LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY.