I was watching The Tale of Despereaux yesterday, an animated film that I extremely enjoy! It has a cutely quaint plot and storyline and I love Sigourney Weaver as the narrator, but as lovely as all that is, it is not what stuck with me. what stuck with me the most was sweet little Despereaux. Not because he was a mouse, and not because he was the cutest mouse I've ever lain my eyes upon, but because he was different and he was out-casted for that.
You see, Despereaux had a curious mind -- a curious mind that would not cower or scurry away from the illuminating light of mystery. As he put it, he was a gentleman. He was brave, in a place and time where bravery had no place and time. Bravery was not accepted as the norm. He was hated for simply being, and sold out by his own family. To them he was a problem and that was all that mattered.
People fear differences as an entity. They label it, they give it a name, and they condemn it to only serve as a purpose for attraction. They point it out, they place a spotlight upon it, and place a sign overhead that reads, "THIS IS NOT RIGHT."
Who are they to say it isn't right? Who are you to say it isn't right? Who am I to say it isn't right?
Has society forgotten that in finding a sense of identity we find our own differences; in realizing who we are, overlooking the stereotypes and the propaganda in media, we find a sense of self. In that self, we find a light that shines a little differently than all the others. If we never find that self -- that light -- that difference within ourselves, we're lost within the crowd, within the majority. We are lost within our own un-fulfillment. We would always have a heart filled with longing to simply be different.
♥ Kimokeo
I think that most people lack sense of self and for that very reason people fear that in which they don't understand. In that fear they exile it and label it as "Not Right". I've come to learn that there is no ULTIMATE "Right". Whats right for me, may not be right for someone else.
ReplyDeleteThere are those that are a shamed of being different so they conform to what everyone else believes is right. I refuse to be one of those people and i'm happy to know you're not one of those people either :)