I am against taboo. I dislike them. I think it is better to talk about things then pretend they aren’t there. But of course, we should not talk about it where ever. No we need to talk about the subject in an environment that fits for the subject and with people that have questions about it.
It can be about shame, faith, sexuality, gilt, if you look different, feelings, thoughts, act, violence, food, shape, if you have a sickness that is not so common and the list goes on…
My experience from this is from the time when I was working with teen’s on a youth club in Sweden. We picked a subject and talked about it in small groups and let everyone be able to say what they where thinking and let them ask whatever they wanted. Nothing were a stupid question and should not be! One of the subjects with the teen’s, where “what sex can do to one and each other and all those difficult issues that comes with it”. We open the lid of the pot and let everyone say what they felt or what there opinion where. We discussed this because they didn’t feel comfort to talk about this with there own parents. Like most teen’s feel. I’ve been there too. I couldn’t talk with my parents about it. They felt it was okay to talk with me as an adult because I wasn’t a parent. I was an adult in there life who wanted to listen to them and the issues they had. That was the point. To talk about things is important. To talk about taboo’s.
For me is it the same with all kind of taboo subjects. It is important to open them up an be a where of them.
I have a girl friend whom I can be naturally open with about my life, we can talk about everything. We haven’t been close friends for more then a year but we found the tone quite fast. We have both living a life as a non-christian for some years of our life, and in one way that helps me to be open in an other way then I am with other close friends I have. It is not always easy to share private stuff with even close friends.
So when you do find a person that becomes a very good friend don’t hesitate to open up what you feel or thinking.
I saw a documentary few days ago “come out diary “. Its about teen’s that comes out of who they believe they are and not what they are born too. One of the teen’s where born a boy and had felt something where wrong since he/she was about 10 years old. He felt he was a girl but he/she kept it for him/her self until he/she was 18. And he/she couldn’t understand why his/her family couldn’t just respect his/hers choices. In this documentary he comes out as a teenage girl and just wants some respect.
I think it’s sad in the way they are so confused about who they are in the same time I feel sorry for them for what they feel they “have to” keep to themselves for so many years before they let them self’s out.
This documentary show us that, this is still in 2015, a big taboo for most generations in the world.
It has been more open doors about this subject but it is still a taboo-theme. Let us be a where about this and rather talk about it then hide it behind a door.
This is my thoughts.
/Mia-Simone.
mia-simone. svenberg 