The Importance Of Faith In Life

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How much faith can you have in something before that faith is gone? Can that faith take over you and the way you might see things surrounding what you place your faith in? Faith can be like hope, you can put your faith into something or hope for something so much and be disappointed by the outcome. Like anything it’s always a toss up, because you don’t always have control in those situations. Things like that can put strength behind the thing you have faith in or destroy your feelings towards it.
I currently work for a company that carries the very strong belief that essentially everyone is replaceable depending on how much you can do for them. When you fail to benefit them anymore there is no need for your presence anymore, like I’ve found a lot of people to be. Before I began working there the man who is now my boss felt he didn’t want a female doing the job that I was going for, for many
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The things they do don’t surprise me anymore and I usually expect the worst from them. I continue to watch this man do the same things all the time and target girls that were younger then myself and he watched grow up. I work for a company that has the back of a disgusting human because right now he’s the only person that can do the job right. It doesn’t help he’s been there more than fifteen years.
In the twenty-six years I’ve been on this earth I’ve been to a bunch of schools and assorted programs. I wont say everybody is the same because they are not but they do have similar ways. My faith in people was gone a long time ago but sometimes you can’t help but still have hope. Not everyone in this world is bad or backwards so I have learned to not expect too many positive things but I will expect the worst. I wait for people to show their true selves even when they think they are doing such a great job at hiding who that person

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