Can't We All Just Get Along?

Weddings always make me tear up. Seeing two people express their pure love for eachother is emotional! We need more love in this world. I stumbled across a wedding show today and fully enjoyed it, teared up, enjoyed the lovely moments, and then realized something.

"Oh, this is a male couple."

It's all love to me, yet I wondered what the rest of the world is thinking... Is this beautiful, tear-jerking couple being judged for publicly sharing their love because we were raised being told that loving someone of the same sex is wrong?

If nobody told me that it wasn't okay to love whomever you wanted to love, I would've never known that it's a cause for hate.

My hope is that someday, everyone who wants to keep lovers of any gender apart will feel as silly as all the people that wanted to keep people of different colors separate.

In a casual conversation with Nurse A, while talking about Son's future, I said it'll be weird for me to accept that he'll grow up, and anticipating the moment when "he brings his first boyfriend or girlfriend home because I've spent his whole life patting his bottom while helping him work his toots out." I froze for a moment while I processed what I'd just said, awaiting Nurse A's reaction.

I apologized if my statement was offensive to her beliefs and said that I had spoken too fast. She laughed, shook her head while smiling and said, "It's all good."

I promise myself that I will always give Son time to form his own opinion. If Son wants to paint his room pink and rock a green mohawk, he will know that it's totally fine with me.

He will continue to get odd stares and whispers around us in public the whole duration of having a trach tube and an NG tube. People stare at Son because they're curious and don't understand because it's something they're not used to seeing, but I won't let it stop us from going in public. He's alive and happy, and I will try to never let the world teach him that two men holding hands is a cause for staring, either.

Same sex couples shouldn't feel like they have to hide out. Let's just celebrate love and being alive!