Laughing, at People.

What is wrong with the world?
Many things, but today I really noticed one thing in particular. Physically handicapped people, being laughed at. What is up with that?

I was shopping in Trier, a near by german city, and there was a man, who was looking after a physically handicapped women next to a shopping mall.
The woman started making noises, as if she was try to speak, and people were laughing. Obviously not the man looking after her, but normal people in the street. My friends even cracked smiles, and not pity smiles, but the kinda containing your laughter smile. It really bothered me.

Its not their fault they look or act like that, most of those people were born that way. Why should they be like that? Why is it them, and not us? Why are we so special, or lucky? Why do we deserve to be normal?

Its all questions that i continue asking myself, because i never appreciate my life enough. I don't pay attention to people's health problems, because i have none. I never assume some people can't walk, or talk properly, its so rare to me, to see that.
Still, i'm not one of those people that stares, laughs, and makes fun.

I know people with those problems usually don't like pity, so i try not to pity them. I want to help them, i want to show others that they are just as good as us. So i try to talk to them as a normal human being. I remember when i was little, living in London, we would go to a park, near our house, and i made friends. One of my friends was in a wheel chair, she had a growth problem, she was 11, and she had an adult size head, but the body of a 5 year old. She was also really skinny. At first sight she was weird, different. But i got to know her. She was really smart, and funny. She was one of my best park buddies. And i'm happy that i got to know her, and i went passed the physical boundary, and so should others.

Because the fact that my friends acted that way today, it really upset me. Its not their fault they look like that. Get over it, and get to know them.