Why I Am A Pastor's Kid

I didn’t ask to be what I am. When you are born you don't get to choose what you're going to be. You just have to work with what you have. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, but either way you will learn lessons that you'll never forget. I am a pastor's kid. The people in this generation would typically think that's one of the worst things to be. Think about it, being pressured to be religious, being pressured to do the right thing. Never having those experiences that “normal” teenagers have, no drugs, no alcohol, no sex before marriage, no dating until you're sixteen. Having rules that a normal teenager would think is complete hell. Beinga teenager, it was, and still can be, complete hell watching your friends go out and do all these things that you were told …show more content…
But that's the thing about my religion, Christianity. When someone is not a part of the Christian religion decides to become one, they are told a lot of the time that life's going to be perfect. That once you're Christian, everything gets better and happier. Well here's the thing that a lot of people leave out. There not talking about life. Life will never be perfect whether you're Christian or an atheist. Whether you're a Buddhist or Islamic, weather you don't have a religion, or you're just scared to get in one, life isn't perfect. Heaven, that's what they're talking about when they say that life will get perfect. That's something I didn't realize for a little while. I constantly asked God why isn't life amazing? why aren't I happy? I'm being nice to everyone, I'm not breaking any of the Ten Commandments, I read the Bible and I pray and I volunteer at church, I'm doing everything that I was raised to do, so why is life not perfect? Throughout experiences in my life, I learned the truth, The truth over the fact, that life isn't it amazing. That there's always going to be challenges and I just have to