Whilst watching Children in Need the other day, I felt a pang of sadness for those children who have been abused/don't have to same opportunities as other children.
So as a New Years Resolution, as well as my University work, I want to do some charity work...
...but I cannot do it alone.
The saying goes 'two heads are better than one'...but what about a group of heads? If you are interested in helping me, it'd be great :D this charity is very close to my heart and ideas and fresh opinions would be brilliant. It'd also be good if you were enthusiastic and committed (don't leave me high and dry in other words).
For those of you going through/about to go through the UCAS process, it'd be great on your UCAS forms ;)
Anywho, if you are interested, pop me a facebook message, DM/tweet me on twitter, or if you're close enough to me to have my phone number, give me a text and we'll all meet up for brainstorming :)
Danke schon!xx
P.S. If you're creative/doing or have done ART you'd be a brilliant asset as well as others who have fulfilled the 'criteria' above <3
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Individual differences...
A post on facebook nearly cricked my neck today, due to the prehistoric reasoning and wording behind it. As we all know, the elections for the next President of the USA have been occurring, and we all have our reasoning and ideas behind who should have been elected. Obviously, we all know now that Obama has been re-elected, which is good news for those Democrats among us but when I see facebook posts like this...
'Obama has been re-elected...looks like the majority of the votes are from black people'
...it makes me lose hope for mankind.
Reasons why we are behind some candidates are all very well (their speeches are inspiring, they have done a lot of things for the country e.t.c.) but that reason right there, is obviously a prehistoric argument. What people say and believe in comes from the brain and the heart (which we all have), whether we are black, white, hispanic, chinese e.t.c. So that facebook post is invalid and, to be honest, stupid.
I preach a lot about racism, sexism, homophobic comments, but only because I truly believe that equality is a concept that we haven't fully understood yet. It's all very well and good having women as equals in Western societies, having civil partnerships for those who are homosexual and the equality act in the work place to allow those of different ethnicities and disabled people to work, but until we abolish these prehistoric and lame ideas about how we think these 'other' people think/work, then we'll never truly take aboard individual differences.
My family, I'll admit, have a lot of these prehistoric ideas (I say prehistoric a lot because some people think from the 1800's and society has moved on from those times), through generations my family have had some, I think, different views on equality but I truly believe that if every person was exactly the same it would be a boring place: we'd have the same views, the same ideas, we'd be looking in a mirror and seeing a person exactly the same.
Diversity is a beautiful thing. I know a lot of people who are of different ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disability and mentality, and to be honest I love them all. They make life so exciting and although my dad says to me every morning 'Try and be normal today Alex', can we really define normality? I don't believe that there is such a thing as normality...we do normal things, like brushing our teeth, eating breakfast, making friends, but as we look in the mirror, do we really believe that we are normal?
What does normal look like? What does it sound like? Feel like? We all have differences. Abnormality can come into different forms but in the end we are all capable of changing. So we are never truly normal. Because we are adapting all the time.
Barack Obama says:
'It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, abled, disabled, gay or straight...you can make it here in America if you're willing to try'
And I truly believe in that statement...and as long as I am alive, and wanting to become a nurse, and helping people with their problems, I will accept everyone as they are.
Because that is one thing that every human being wants.
To be accepted for their differences.
To be accepted for who they are.
'Obama has been re-elected...looks like the majority of the votes are from black people'
...it makes me lose hope for mankind.
Reasons why we are behind some candidates are all very well (their speeches are inspiring, they have done a lot of things for the country e.t.c.) but that reason right there, is obviously a prehistoric argument. What people say and believe in comes from the brain and the heart (which we all have), whether we are black, white, hispanic, chinese e.t.c. So that facebook post is invalid and, to be honest, stupid.
I preach a lot about racism, sexism, homophobic comments, but only because I truly believe that equality is a concept that we haven't fully understood yet. It's all very well and good having women as equals in Western societies, having civil partnerships for those who are homosexual and the equality act in the work place to allow those of different ethnicities and disabled people to work, but until we abolish these prehistoric and lame ideas about how we think these 'other' people think/work, then we'll never truly take aboard individual differences.
My family, I'll admit, have a lot of these prehistoric ideas (I say prehistoric a lot because some people think from the 1800's and society has moved on from those times), through generations my family have had some, I think, different views on equality but I truly believe that if every person was exactly the same it would be a boring place: we'd have the same views, the same ideas, we'd be looking in a mirror and seeing a person exactly the same.
Diversity is a beautiful thing. I know a lot of people who are of different ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disability and mentality, and to be honest I love them all. They make life so exciting and although my dad says to me every morning 'Try and be normal today Alex', can we really define normality? I don't believe that there is such a thing as normality...we do normal things, like brushing our teeth, eating breakfast, making friends, but as we look in the mirror, do we really believe that we are normal?
What does normal look like? What does it sound like? Feel like? We all have differences. Abnormality can come into different forms but in the end we are all capable of changing. So we are never truly normal. Because we are adapting all the time.
Barack Obama says:
'It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, abled, disabled, gay or straight...you can make it here in America if you're willing to try'
And I truly believe in that statement...and as long as I am alive, and wanting to become a nurse, and helping people with their problems, I will accept everyone as they are.
Because that is one thing that every human being wants.
To be accepted for their differences.
To be accepted for who they are.
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