This weekend I feel as if the only thing I have been doing is homework for hours on end. I get up and go to work in the morning, and then I come home and I sit down to do homework for what seems like an eternity. Usually I get quite distracted and end up in the really weird realms of the internet.
As I was being my normal distracted self, I actually came across a very interesting photo on Facebook that had a quote that stuck in my mind about a very touchy topic we see all over the news lately.
"If I say my house is on fire and you say 'all houses matter,' well that may be true, but all houses aren't on fire right now. My house is."
As I read this quote I kind of thought of it as a good way to look at the situation from a different point of view. This made me think about how the statement "all lives matter" is very true. However it does not deal with the direct situation at hand. In picture we see someone tending to the house that is not on fire, and this would not even remotely fix the situation because even though that house "matters" it is not the house in need of desperate help in that moment. I think the same perspective can be taken when it comes to the saying "All lives matter." Yes, that is true, but where do we need to focus? This photo and quote has been stuck in my head for about two days now so I decided to share and see what some other people may think about it!
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