She Didn’t Wake Up One Morning
This is written with compassion for a parent whose daughter, at the age of only twenty-four, ended her life because she couldn’t deal with the problem that her sexuality was causing to herself and to you and to others close to her:
“Your daughter didn’t wake up one morning to make the choice to be part of a minority group in this world;
She didn’t wake up one morning to make the choice to be part of a group that others look down upon and are seemingly unable to accept;
She didn’t wake up one morning to make the choice to be part of a group that is verbally abused, even on television, by those who feel that they have the right to ridicule and condemn her sexuality;
She didn’t wake up one morning to make the choice to walk one of the hardest roads in life where nobody would wish to be;
Do you really believe that anyone in the USA in the nineteen-sixties woke up one morning to make the choice to be black?
All your daughter did was to stop pretending to be the person that others around her, even some of those closest to her, wanted her to be;
She was finally honest to herself, and to you, and she must have felt free for a short time with some of those who loved her for who, and what, she was;
She didn’t wake up one morning ………… I can only hope and pray that the rest of the world soon will”
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Oh my God! I am tottaly shocked by this post. I feel for her and for the ones who loved her. It is such a wake up call to know that, even though I was lucky to be surronded by family and friends that accepted me since the moment I came out (at the age of 20, a lot of people goes thu a lot of difficult times until they can feel loved, accepted, free and proud.
I feel especially touched by this post just because last week I signed up to be a volunteer of the Human Rights Campaign, exactly because I am feeling extremelly compelled to make any kind of difference I possibly can to help fighthing for LGBT equal rights and to change this society that still discriminates and judge people like us.
I’m sorry we couldn’t help her. But I will continued trying and hopefully one day NOBODY would have to feel what she felt and instead would have received much love and respect.
I totally get it and stand by it 100% this is what ive been saying all along! would you mind if i used this on my myspace page. think i makes a statment and would love to share it. as a lesbian i know what it is like and i have said this is not a choice for as long as i can rember, and if you will let me i want to post this passege on my page.
kat
A very moving post. it still amazes me that the world we live in can be so closed to the idea that love crosses not only gender, but faiths, colours, age, and many more of the barriers that society likes to put up for those who are of a more bohemian persuasion, those who do not fit as perfectly as they would like.
Sorry for your loss. Peace.