We, as humans have different beliefs. May it be about religion or not. I remember when I was studying, I had classmates who were fighting about their religion or what they’ve believed in (or what their church made them believe). I was sitting at the corner, listening to the argument. It was going nowhere. Besides, is it really necessary to fight about religions? I think they should just keep it to themselves, whatever they believe in. Everybody’s at peace.

Actually, it all started when I sent a message to my cousin on Christmas Day, asking if my uncle and his daughter really changed their religion. My cousin told me, it was true. It’s been what… 2 years. I had no intentions of opening the issue, because I didn’t know there is something going on there. I’ve been away for 5 years and I wouldn’t know a thing if I wasn’t told about it. My uncle sent me a message in our language and for the benefit of people who don’t understand our language I will be translating it in English “we don’t have Christmas for 2 years now, I will celebrate Christmas when I see Christmas in the bible”. I was shocked. He sent another message that really pissed me off. The message was “Study well and do not buy things you don’t need”. The uncle that I am talking about is a big pain in the ass of the family. He is still the same and who is he to talk to me about those things? I mean, he drinks, he gambles, he doesn’t work, he leaves his child alone and he is a womanizer. How the hell you think I am going to follow what he is talking about? My family never buys things we don’t need, we are not rich people, we know the value of money and even if we want to buy things, we can’t because we are a big family and there are other more important things to think about than buy unneeded things. He should look at the mirror first before he says things like that. My mom is older than him and what kind of brother would hate her sister… older sister because he is jealous of her because mom is loved by a lot of people?

Last night, after exchanging messages with my cousin-in-law (is there such a thing as cousin-in-law? hehe) I made a lot of thinking. I never doubted and never will doubt my faith. She gave me verses to read. I did. To tell you the truth, I have learned a lot. It was about 7-10 verses. I don’t read the bible; I am having a hard time understanding it because it’s so deep for me. Surprisingly, I understood the verses she gave me and even read some of the verses I feel like reading. It was a great feeling. Me, reading the bible. I don’t know when I will ever read the bible again. Mind you, I do believe in God. I love God so much, it’s just that I am not into reading the bible but I do read prayer books. I know… I know… it is different. We all have different beliefs. As much as I respect you, I hope you will respect me too.