Enlightenment

About once a year, I have lunch with a few friends that I know from doing volunteer work in the past.  This is a "strange" group, because we are all completely different ages and do completely different things.  I am the youngest.  One is a nurse, probably a few years older than me.  Another is in her 40s, has a teenage son and works from home doing bookkeeping/admin work.  The last is in her 50s, has a son who is the around my age and works for a construction company.  Somehow, it works and (now that I think about it) we have known each other for just over ten years.

Conversations with this group are always full of surprises.  Everyone has such a different background and are at such different stages in life that everything and anything can come up.  One minute it's about home renovations, the next it's about immigration, and then somehow it got to politics.

The topic of politics lead to talk of the elections which lead to the controversial new sex ed curriculum which lead to LGBT.  This is not the first time that this topic has come up in this group.  For the most part, I already know that they are okay with it.

The one person started talking about her son's experience with LGBT people.  She said that at first he was very much against it.  Until very recently, he actually met and got to know a girl who had a girlfriend.  Over time, he realized that he could be friends with her and the girlfriend and that it really made no difference that they were dating.

Nice to hear something positive.  I know I've read/heard something similar before, but it's a little more encouraging when you hear it from the people around you.  But, of course, sometimes you never know what will happen until it happens.

If only some people around me could come to the same sort of enlightenment.  My life would be a lot easier.