oh no, i could never walk away from you.

thoughts.

you may see me as the vivacious teenager with loads of friends and a big smile.
you may see me as the attention starved little girl who makes video blogs and spends unhealthy amounts of time on the internet.
you may see me as the young woman who is mature beyond her years.
you may see me as the obnoxious kid down the street who doesn't know how to use her inside voice.

all of these are fine by me. as long as you also see me as a person.

we are all people, when it comes down to it. before you are asian, you are a person. before you are homosexual, you are a person. before you are a cripple, you are a person.

the media has a problem with dehumanizing people. we see britney spears as a 'celebrity', a 'trainwreck', a 'diva', before we see her as a person. perhaps that is what makes it so easy for us, as a society, to gossip and scrutinize 'celebrities' on the glossy pages of magazines across america, without any regard for how it might make them feel.

this is what makes it easy for us to swallow '12 carbombed soldiers' or '20 murdered iranian protesters' or '50,000 massacred sudanese'.

what if the media labled them as HUMAN BEINGS instead? 12 carbombed people. 20 murdered people. 50,000 massacred living breathing people with feelings, emotions, families, lives, futures, purpose.

we are all people.
we are all human.
we all make mistakes, we all love, we all breathe, we all think, we all FEEL.

no one person has more value than another.

when did we start treating people as objects, as minor expenditures, as statistics?

and when will it stop?