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Sunday, July 31, 2011, 8:46 PM
there's always a story behind a character because he/she is different from expectations, or rather special, thus sadly, mistaken.johnny from the outsiders: poor, lacks education opportunity, comes from a broken family, sticks with his gang of greasers, thus ppl see/label him as a delinquent. but others do not see his side of loyalty, gentleness, courage, willingness to learn, and that greasers is in fact like his family providing the affection he lacks. class differences created all these labels between the delinquent greasers vs classy socs, and sadly, being in the former means carrying the label despite each member being different and nice in his own way.
kitou aya from one litre of tears: smart, sporty, yet due to a rare illness, her healthy mind was trapped in a deteriorating physical body. ppl see her as disabled, even doubting her mental capacities as they do not understand her illness. she is known due to the drama/her book and ppl show understanding/sympathy to her and her character. but in real life, life is still very much cruel as such stories are happening day by day, silently, and ppl tend to forget when it is less romanticised by the effect of reality.
peter houghton from nineteen minutes: a gentle, loyal friend in his own different ways, yet as he is seen to deviate from his adolescent peers' expectations, he is an outcast and bullied by peers. in turn, a tragedy occurred as he decided to take charge by shooting.
snape from hp: a great loyal man whose rather cold personality hides his inner virtues. bullied when he was young as he was again, labelled as weird or different. mistaken yet never explains himself, for his greater ideal of love and loyalty.
there are still many many characters in the stories i've read that i did not list out. and also, not forgetting real life ppl who are struggling everyday being different from the 'normal' expectations. just because ppl judge and how the society works, they need to struggle more than some other 'normal' ppl. they have to make extra effort to get past the extra labels that others impose on them.
i guess that is why while everyone has a story, stories of these 'different' ppl touch ppl more. because we know that deep in our hearts, how the world is unfair in some sense and we empathise with such 'differences'. yet the problem is, in our daily lives, most of us forget that as we go along with societal expectations, not having the courage to be different and judging others by the same set of lens. it's sad, isn't it?
so, who can ever say what's black/white without knowing everyone's story? just by being different as how other ppl see/say, doesnt mean that the person shld live a life worse than 'normal' or whatsoever. nobody shld ever deprive anyone of his/her rights to live a 'normal' life just because he/she is poor, disabled, of a different race, gender, personality, preference or any other measures.
because aren't differences normal?
because at the end of the day, who is to measure whether one is different or not, and by what basis? a blue line vs a pink line. who is to judge which one is different? as my sexuality prof once said: "human beings are like crayons of different types, sizes and colours, and the most important thing is, they live in the same crayon box." it is because of their differences, that make the world colourful, and human, isn't it?
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