The Debate

My parents have always taught me to stick with what I believe in no matter what others say, I need to "stay true to myself". At my middle school I was always the outsider or at least thats it felt like. I wanted to fit in, but it was hard as things were always testing my patience. One time during lunch, I sat down a bit late and much to my surprise my friends were in a heated debate. Usually they were talking about surfing or some new video game that had just came out, so this was a strange occurrence. I tried not to get involved with whatever they were talking about because it seemed pretty intense and I felt like eating not getting angry. I had a voracious appetite because I hadn't eaten much that day. As I was about to tear into my sandwich, something caught my ear. 

"Being gay should be outlawed bro, it's so f*cking gay that the Obama hasn't done that yet. He's such a bad president," one says to another.

At this point, they had come to some sort of agreement on whatever they were talking about before and had continue onto this subject. Of course, in the current state that I was in, being starving and tired from class, I was ready to snap at anything. So this particular sentence really made me mad, because I just didn't agree with anything they had just said. 

I retorted with something along the lines of, "how would you like it if the Government banned you from going to the beach because they didn't like surfers? Oh I know, you wouldn't. Why do you say such hateful things about a group of people that just want to be happy?" 

Some of what I said after that didn't make sense because I was hungry, but eventually I stormed off to eat my lunch elsewhere.

Cheers.