Hello! My name is Anna Lott, and welcome to the world.
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It’s one of the most beautiful things about humans—our ability to create and imagine and live the way we do—but when we forget that not everyone is right there with us, that not everyone has the same thoughts and feelings, we sometimes reject them because it’s something that we’re unfamiliar with. We ourselves are rejected by others for the same reason, and when we built this wall between each other, it’s a lot more difficult to see that beauty.
My hope is that this blog will be one small step toward changing that. If you’ve been wanting something more from the world, thinking it’s too small and feeling trapped, the answer is simpler thank you would think: open up your world and explore all those differences you turned away in the past. Get a different perspective, learn things that you didn’t even know were things, and when people around you see this, they’ll open up too. The sooner we stop closing ourselves off from one another, the sooner we can all live in that one big world.
~Personal~
As a freshman in college, I’ve only just recently stepped out into the uncharted territory of adult life, and it’s a whole new game: the rules have changed, some players don’t follow the rules, and my level of experience is embarrassingly low. But even so, there is one difference between the past and the present that I have never been more ready for: the fact that there is no longer anyone who can keep me from voicing my thoughts and achieving my goals, and I am eager to take advantage of this freedom in my blog.
~What you can expect~
In reading this blog you will be able to take that first step into expanding your world and seeing different thoughts and perspectives about topical issues, my particular focus being adoption. I myself am not adopted and am not an adoptive parent, so my stance lacks the direct experience to back it up and will probably pale in comparison to someone who has been through it on either side. However, I have experienced it through my cousins and their adopted children, and I have seen the change it has made in their lives and those of the people surrounding them, myself included. I will be using this, along with research collected over time, to reveal the truths about adoption that are often overlooked due to the stigma around it.
I look forward to learning with you about keeping an open mind to what we don’t know, and to not only read between the lines, but beyond them.
Maybe we've been livin' with our eyes half open.