Personal Narrative: Growing Up In Religion

Throughout my life, I’ve felt that I’ve had an interesting way of growing up in religion. I started off as a kid who hated to go to church and never understood the point of going. A little ways into eighth grade, my parents had me complete my first communion and get confirmed in the matter of eight months. I attended a public high school in my hometown where it made it a lot harder to be a strong believer because of all the peer pressure. By the end of high school, I began to doubt my religion and began to believe science more and more. And while science is not a huge argument for doubts in religion and it hardly conflicts, it is hard to look past how it could potentially affect my views. Now that I’m in college and forced to make my own decisions,

I took summer program at my church to try to get a better understanding. The teacher I had was extremely into this class and took it very seriously as I wanted him to. He went deep into the philosophical aspects on a lot of the subjects we covered and also went into the deeper meaning behind life. Towards the conclusion of the program, I went on a mission trip where we spent the majority of our time doing service work. I took the trip very seriously as I thought it would be important to try to get something out of it and have a better understanding. What I noticed was the more I participated, the more I learned and the more I learned, the more proud of myself I became allowing me to be more of a believer of religion. What also this program did for me was allowed me to feel as if I was becoming a better and more sophisticated person about

This is where I really connect with the quote from Einstein above. All of my life I went to church and attended functions related with church, but never got anything out of them. I was that person going to church and calling myself a Catholic, but in reality I did not know anything about being a Catholic until confirmation. That is exactly what I learned about myself during my trip and it is how I formed my perspective on life and religion.

My personal perspective on life and the world is that everyone has their own reality. When I say that everyone has their own reality, I mean that everyone has their own life, and their own thoughts. Also, through our lives, I believe that we are all trying to find the purpose in our life. We are trying to figure out why we are here and what makes us all individually important in the middle of millions of people all over the