Faith Life
My faith life began when I was very young at my baptism. My mother is Catholic and my father is Protestant. I became one of those new Catholics that had no idea what was going on or what I was getting myself into. To say as much, my parents are not the most faithful and wouldn't take me to Church on Sundays, as many parents would except on major holidays such as Easter and Christmas. During my elementary school years I went to Blessed Sacrament and every Friday the whole school would attend a mass. When I became of age for my first communion in grade two I came down with a case of the chicken pocks. I never had an official ceremony for my first communion like everyone else did; I just went up to get it. Life continued on and in grade seven it was time for our confirmation and it is a time when you choose how you are going to develop your faith as a young adult. How many people really chose in my class to get confirmed? How many people just did it because everyone else was doing it or their parents told them too? I chose not to be confirmed and as soon as I left elementary school, my faith life ended.
My faith life now only consists of going to a Catholic school and attending religions classes which are mandatory. I don't pray on a regular basis or on my own and I don't go to Church unless I have too. I have come to a point in my life and come to my own opinions that I can live my life to its fullest without the influence of any religion, it is like someone who never believed in God in the first place and someone who does believe in God can lead just as fulfilling lives. I have nothing against anyone who goes to Church or likes to pray but I believe that I can do without it. It does not make caring person, or me a less loving it is just who I am. If I had the choice I would believe in magic and dragons but the closest I get to that is reading books. This is my faith life; this is who I choose to be.
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