The Door

Haley Fleming - This door represents both rejection and acceptance. I was assigned to live in this room of my sorority house with a girl who had openly made homophobic comments, not only towards myself but towards others as well. Thankfully I had been able to switch my roommates because another sister who had hardly known me offered to switch places in order for me to live comfortably. Due to her switching rooms, I was not only taken out of an awkward situation, but gained a great friend from this experience.

We bonded over very personal things about each other, as well as she went out of her way to ask me questions in order to educate herself more on the LGBT community that she knew little about. The other girl had still lived in the house and we had a distance between us, but this situation was the first time I had been directly affected by people's ignorance.

I was thrown into a situation where people knew it'd be an uncomfortable situation, yet they did it anyways. However, this also shows that despite people's ignorance, a situation like this can bring out the open-mindedness of others.

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