Change is inevitable
Change – a word like any other. But if you focus on what it means, you see that change is permanent and unstoppable. Whether intended or unintended, it transforms views, cultures and many other parts of life. When the corona virus is mutating, this is happening very quickly. It has significant effects that occur all of a sudden. The lockdown also begins from one moment to the other.
However, change can also proceed within a much longer period of time. If you look within society, you see different generations living together. Generations that grew up with different views and are initially critical of anything new.
If everything is contradictory and you do not understand the idea behind it, it can be difficult. Nevertheless, it is sometimes necessary. In this case, it is not a matter of a mutation that is undesirable, but of a change that urgently needs to take place because time inevitably moves on without stopping, dragging the change behind it.
Thus it is inevitable. If you are aware of this, then it is quite incomprehensible why some people find it so difficult to simply tolerate, accept and perhaps even support something.
This also applies to issues related to personal identity. When it concerns sexuality, there are suddenly a lot of people who think they have to interfere in other people’s lives and express their displeasure and lack of understanding. This is just a matter of phases, as it is not normal. But no one knows who has defined this “normality”. While depression due to social exclusion is still evident and the LGBTQ+-community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) also finds some support, at least in some countries, things are still very different in other countries. For example, if you look at Hungary and Poland at the moment, you only see discrimination when it concerns the free expression of one’s sexuality.
I personally just wonder whether the people who discriminate are running away from change or time. Or is it not possible to make a distinction between the two at all? Why are these homophobic people so afraid? Of what? The fact is that at this point you have to choose between two options: Either you allow the change and stand still or you resist it and continue to run senselessly away from time.
Johanna V.
