My thoughts

The one thing that I love when I'm trying to fall asleep is that all my thought comes together. Normally, during the day, my thoughts are all convoluted. The average number of thoughts a person has a day is around 70,000. It is super hard for us to control these thoughts, but I find it easy to collect my thoughts right before bed and this is what came to mind. I have a friend that I meant recently that is autistic. Today he asked me if I would stand up for him if anyone insulted him because of his personality. This guy is one of the kindest people i know. Every time I talk to him, he firsts asks me how I am and then asks how my day has been. But most people shun away from him because he is loud and has a knack to interrupt you to say what is on his mind. I am ashamed to live in a society that shuns people just because they are different. And I'm not saying that I don't do this. I usually stay away from people who look and act different from me  because I don't think that we would get along. Our society has "trained" us to spot out individual differences to stand out. When you look at someone your immediate thought would be "that person is rich, poor, fat, nerdy, homosexual" and countless other things and we put them into categories and treat them that way, and we get so that we only see others as separate from ourselves rather than finding what their similarities are. My autistic friend, Richard, while we don't have a lot of similarities, he likes wrestling while I like longboarding, is a great guy. Most people look the other way because of how he acts, and I probably wouldn't have talked to him either if another one of my friends didn't introduce me to him. I grew up with the paradigm that if someone if different from you, they are bad and you should stay away from them. And up until, eleventh grade, I stuck to that paradigm. Is that what society has come to? Looking at someone, putting them into a category and treating them differently? This is a total cliche but "what would Jesus do"? He came down to earth because he loved us for who we are. And even if you aren't a Christian, we all have the drive to love one another. I'm going off to college in August, and I can't afford to "classify" people anymore. We are on earth to love one another, and we can't do that if we keep on the path that we are on. Whether you are gay, rich, poor, or live in your mothers basement and play World of Worldcraft, you deserve everyones respect.