I've been thinking about my own personal identity. Some people use their faith to identify themselves others use their lack of faith to identify themselves. Either way, they know who they are, or feel they know who they are and what they believe.
I feel like I need to believe in something to know who I am. Pretty much all the way through high school I attended youth group regularly and thats how I identified myself for the most part. I believed in Jesus and met with a group of 50 other people who did too. That was who I was. Now I am not so sure.
Being at college has opened me up to many other peoples views on different beliefs. I'm not sure if a Christian life is for me or even if a Buddhist life is for me. Maybe I shouldn't have any religion, seeing as no one really can agree on exactly what the definition of religion is.
I like the idea of praying though. The idea of giving up all your thoughts, worries, feelings, praises and the like to someone. In my case, God. Even though I am unsure at the moment, I still pray to God for some sort of guidance. I'm not sure if I've been conditioned by family members or other friends to do this or if it is really what I want to do.
I've been doing a lot of reading about other religions and what they believe and how and where they meet. I wouldn't call my current situation a crisis of any sort but it is a difficult time. Not bad difficult, just confusing.
This post is a lot like the last one, but I think I needed to discuss it just a little more.
I like this post, it really shows how you think and kind of gives an insight as to what you believe in.
ReplyDeleteI liked the line "Maybe I shouldn't have any religion, seeing as no one really can agree on exactly what the definition of religion is." I find myself here quite a bit.
As for the line about praying. I think that everyone likes to pray. The concept that if you talk to someone about something and that they can make all your problems go away is very appealing to people and most are very reluctant to get rid of that.
Overall a very good post