A Right to Live in Beauty

Do you ever feel almost as though you've been robbed of your birthright?  I was just commenting on xevv's LJ and it set me to thinking....  At my grandparents' house, where I spent most of my childhood, things tended to be rather spare.  Art and music and anything that could be considered among the finer things or spoke of culture was generally considered to be frivolous, a waste of money, and appreciating them was considered to be putting on airs.  (Of course--adding this in case there are people just tuning in--these are the same people who considered it to be a hell-worthy sin if you glance at the covers of romance novels in your youthful curiosity.  *rolls eyes heavenward in exhasperation*) As a result, if I got to hear classical music, it was only because I watched  Loony Toons. :-|

To this day, I feel starved and stifled and restless.  I was born for those things.  I was born to create some of them, and to appreciate all of them... That might not be the whole reason I was born, but it's a significant part of who I am, and I resent that they tried to raise me to be a person who looked down on those things, just like I resent that they tried to make me be insecure about sexuality.  (Hell, they tried to make me be insecure about everything.)  I guess it was their way of tearing down the person to make a good little sheep.  Fuck that.

I don't feel like I really started to live until we moved out and away.  I think that was when I was actually born.  And I've still got a lot of catching up to do.  A lot of growing and learning.  Looking at all of it, I believe fully in reincarnation--you'd need several lives to absorb everything there is to know about out there.  And is it any wonder that people come back, even with all of the shit there is in this world?  This can be a fascinating place!  And even as we grow, as we change, so does it.  I feel as though I could swallow it all and still be hungry.

A few points--
1. Survival alone is not enough.
2. We have the right to live in beauty.
3.  We have the right enjoy sexuality and sensuality.
4. We are people, not sheep.  
5. Act like it.
6. More than anything, we are our own creation; we choose who and what we submit to.
7. Religion is not a good enough excuse for trying to ruin a child.
8. There is no good excuse for trying ruin a child.
9. You don't know everything--you wouldn't be here, if you did.

Geekrock?

Heard this song by Muse last night... I've decided I like them. *giggles*