Personal Narrative: My Form Of Faith

Most everyone that has ever lived has had some form of faith that they fall back on when they have doubts, or when they seek answers to questions that they may not be able to solve otherwise, and I am no different. I was raised in a pseudo-catholic household and I attended a catholic private school up until I went to high school. While most would expect this to shape me to some extent in a religious manner, that is not the case. I could never claim that that specific establishment had no effect on my outcome as an individual, but it did shape me in ways that were unexpected. Instead of imparting religious lessons they gave me solid moral groundwork, and instead of bible studies they gave me access to knowledge that I doubt I would have received …show more content…
I seek out those with similar mindsets just as anyone else does, and this often leads me to people whom I can trust and start new relationships with. This continuously growing web of faith placed in those I choose to trust is what allows me to grow with it. If it is not glaringly obvious at this point I am a very people oriented person, and I try to be a similar foundation of faith for those individuals I am close to. By striving to help those I care about and even those I don’t, in my daily life I show my faith in humanity. I don’t believe that humans are at their roots good or evil, as is clearly shown time and again throughout history, but I do believe that every person has a responsibility to make their world a better place, no matter in what capacity. I don’t claim to be any great world force that will change how humans as a species view life, but I do think that someone with that potential exists, and I have faith that it will happen. Maybe not in my lifetime and maybe not for many generations to come, but it will. It only takes one person to rise above the rest and decide that the way we live is not good enough. This is an attitude that can be observed every day in the world around us. In fact, if these people did not exist, we would live in a stagnant quagmire of a