Growing up as a child, I was raised into a spiritual faith. The type of faith that required morning mass every Sunday. I had not truly understood my religion throughout my childhood until my freshman year when I did a four day Teen ACTS retreat that completely changed my life. I gained such a close understanding of my faith that I wanted to do my best in following the morals that pertained to it. I had grown up my whole life with my cousin Johnny by my side. We were inseparable since we were only a few years apart and lived nine houses away from each other. I considered him a brother instead of a cousin. As I had collaborated with him before he left for college my sophomore year, he told me something much unexpected. Johnny was a homosexual.
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It only took four days to change me into a new person. Yet, when I found out about this unexpected news from Johnny, it was not that I was against it. It was my new morals that were not completely rooting for this. But who am I to discriminate people? I had grew up with Johnny not knowing about his secret so now that I did know, it should not have been a reason to change our brotherly relationship. As time passed by, Johnny was back in town for the holidays. We enjoyed each other's company when we both had a chance to see each other. His secret was forgotten whenever we would have our engaging conversations together. It was just like old times again. I continued with my faith and attended Sunday masses. During one conversation that I had with Johnny, religion happened to come up. We both talked about our views and the differences between them. It seemed rather fascinating hearing all of his views and perspectives. Even though, we collaborated about this it did not change my thoughts on my spiritual religion. In fact, it made me more open-minded on this topic. Also knowing about Johnny's secret made me realize that faith is not just based on following the rules. It is having the ability to be a good person and find peace with others positions in their faiths. I believe that through my conversations with Johnny, I was able to look at the big picture of life and understand that everyone is going to have different morals and
It only took four days to change me into a new person. Yet, when I found out about this unexpected news from Johnny, it was not that I was against it. It was my new morals that were not completely rooting for this. But who am I to discriminate people? I had grew up with Johnny not knowing about his secret so now that I did know, it should not have been a reason to change our brotherly relationship. As time passed by, Johnny was back in town for the holidays. We enjoyed each other's company when we both had a chance to see each other. His secret was forgotten whenever we would have our engaging conversations together. It was just like old times again. I continued with my faith and attended Sunday masses. During one conversation that I had with Johnny, religion happened to come up. We both talked about our views and the differences between them. It seemed rather fascinating hearing all of his views and perspectives. Even though, we collaborated about this it did not change my thoughts on my spiritual religion. In fact, it made me more open-minded on this topic. Also knowing about Johnny's secret made me realize that faith is not just based on following the rules. It is having the ability to be a good person and find peace with others positions in their faiths. I believe that through my conversations with Johnny, I was able to look at the big picture of life and understand that everyone is going to have different morals and