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As a society, we enjoy celebrating things, which makes sense as a statement, but the moment I focus a lot more on the reasons we celebrate things, I feel a little disillusioned. To this day, I do not understand the purpose of Easter and name days, I feel like we could completely drop these two out of the celebration equation and get away with it. Another thing I'd like to talk about is Christmas. The older I get, the more I realise how capitalistic Christmas has become. I fear that within the not so distant future, it may be less of a spending time with your family occasion, which in all honesty, do we really need a celebration to do so in the first place, but about the art of gifting. It worries me a bit as Christmas was and always will be at least in my eyes the time to spend with your family, but at the same time, I keep seeing children and adults alike getting disappointed over presents as its not the thing they wished for or wanted. I understand, I myself am a massive fan of presents, but at the same time, it really creates a monetary view on a holiday. I am in no way, shape, or form against Christmas, peeps, I love a good hot chocolate on a winter day, singing oldie Christmas songs next the the big flashy tree, but, at the same time, I don't think that it a few generations ahead, it would have the same meaning.

Pride is a wonderful word, everyone can get behind that. Some carry pride in the things they do, and some portray pride in their arts and crafts. I'm not talking about material pride, I'm talking ✨pride ✨. Pride month is one of the many months where I take a moment and think about myself as a queer individual. I like to take a while and think about where I am, how I got where I am, and what it means to me. Pride to me means equality, community, representation, happiness and the struggle for freedom. It's also the month to educate others on LGBTQIA+ history and what the gay movement went through over the course of the years to be where it is now. I find the historical part important, not only does it show the will to move forwards from what was still considered a dark time for queer individuals, but also the determination, unity, and the power of community. It is important to focus on the future as a whole I'd say, solely due to the fact that we, young queer people, are the queerios of the future. If we disregard the progress the community has made, and ignore the history, then what's there to carry on? I believe that we all carry that legacy and dream in one way or another, the wish to be accepted and free, the need for understanding and education. I really appreciate sources such as ILGA Europe and Movement Advancement Project US, that focus on outlining the progress of queer people and rights within Europe and the US respectively. Having these sources makes it easier to follow what's happening on a global scale, and as talked about in my previous post, it makes it easier to create a clear idea of the current status of queer rights around the world.

Today's thought comes from the words we just cannot define for everyone. We have a definition almost for everything, don't we? As people, we rely on these definitions to provide meaning to the things we say or even think about. I'm comfortable saying almost everything has an accepted meaning or definition that just applies everywhere, but, some words are an exception. I was talking with an old high-school friend about love. I came to realise, that we don't see the meaning of love the same way. We can roughly describe what we do mean, but we cannot agree on a set definition. For me, love is the emotional and physical connection between two or more people. I'm not directly talking about sex, that's not necessarily love in my eyes. My friend defined love through the vision of beauty. To love someone is to know that the person is beautiful both inside and outside, which has me thinking, what exactly is beauty? Beauty is defined as a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight, but how does that apply to people? I feel like a lot of the concepts we use simply cannot be defined, and that's what I like about being non-binary. For me, gender is something I struggle to define. I don't have a solid definition of what it means to be a man or a woman. I know that it's really vague, but I wonder, how many more concepts that we're exposed to on the daily basis simply cannot be defined precisely for everyone? What affects that personal definition? Could it be religion, background, race, or maybe the persons surrounding such as family, friends, school etc..? That's the beauty of words, things are understood through shared knowledge, and surface-level understanding, but towards the end of the day, you get to define a lot for yourself too!

Until politics in the Czech Republic get to a point where this topic can be discussed objectively with factual argumentation and professional analysis, I see no worth going back and forth as things will simply not progress. I guess I'd just like to say, keep my sexuality and gender out of your religious views. I know this is an issue for a specific country, but do not fret, I drink a lot of coffee and have the time to think deeply over everything and anything, stay tuned.

The answer is really simple, I just want a platform where I can share my thoughts, opinions, music, and reviews! Tumblr has always been that for me, and I appreciate that.