See more, feel deeper and love louder. To be honest, I’ve never faced the fact that I was not fully accepted. My family, my friends, my environment. Usually the problem is acceptance within yourself. I've rarely thought about how much it can hurt and be lonely. When you are not accepted by your parents, the people you believed in, and the God in whom you found comfort.
As you get older, the worldview changes a lot. You start to look wider, you see huge gaps in the ship we're all sailing on. I want light, love and warmth. But sometimes it just doesn't. "Beliver" is a film directed by ImagineDragons soloist Dan Reynolds. In his home state, teen suicides have skyrocketed over the past few years, owing to a lack of acceptance in their religious group (Mormonism) of any relationship that does not fit into the “man-woman” framework. Their religion and ideas that have been preserved and inspired before are taking innocent children overboard. Boys and girls, boys and girls, who saw something completely different in themselves, began to think that they did not belong here. They did not find understanding, acceptance and killed themselves.
Dan in the film talks about Mormonism, his attitude towards it. She shares her story with AJ (ex-wife). A lot of the things he faced on his way to today. About the Loveloud festival, which started in 2017. It will be held every year until the church sees that it is necessary to expand its borders.
When I watched "Beliver," I couldn't get the thought out of my mind -- we live too. Every walk of life. You can think about anything, but when it comes to saying something out loud without fear of being slapped, or showing that you're different and there's nothing terrible about it, you get stuck. We are not a religious nation at all when it comes to the fanaticism that other people have. But the “right” thoughts and actions tell us everything around us. Not from the church, but who cares where the government is? She can play the fate of people, decide how it should be. If somewhere else someone just may not agree with your lifestyle, then we can meet with a wave of dislike, if not with the opportunity to be humiliated and beaten.
I'm so sad that it's so hard for us to accept people that they're different from us. Externally, internally, not so important. It's so hard for me to admit that sometimes our indifference hurts. You can simply give a smile and understanding. “Yes, you’re not like me, but that’s cool!” Tell me about it and I’ll share it with you.
It is difficult to push back the boundaries of long-established territories. See more, feel deeper and love louder.
I want to open my heart to all who seek understanding. I know that it is very difficult to accept yourself, your thoughts, actions and, most importantly, desires. But I want to try and feel every emotion that I've never heard before. I really want to believe that everything is right.