The Importance Of Religious Influence On My Life

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Register to read the introduction… I grew up in a strong Catholic family and a lot of beliefs and thoughts have been told to me. A specific change came two years ago when I was invited by good friend of mines youth. The Friday evening when I attended wasn’t an ordinary evening it was a youth event and they had a whole special program for the youth. I went to the event just because my friend asked me to and not because I wanted to but I went along to show my support. Things at the event were said which definitely meant that I would have to change my lifestyle. And since that evening I have had the mindset to try my hardest to always do the right thing. Which I still believe that I am doing until this day.

There was a time in my life when I enjoyed doing extreme and crazy life threatening things. Among these things were skateboarding, daring little stunts and then racing cars.
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Every weekend a friend and I would go and race our cars down the street. We loved it, but our parents didn’t. They thought that it was too dangerous and that there was too much room for something bad to happen. My friend and I never used to listen to our parents and continued racing. Until one day when on the news was a story about girl who had been hurt in a car accident. Despite the incident we continued to carry on with our passion for racing. Then another girl got in a accident, and then numerous accidents broke people’s necks, and then we got scared once the worst thing of all happened Bria got into a accident and lost her life. We thought about all the incidents carefully and for our own safety decided not to continue racing. Today I am glad to be alive and what has changed which I have realized is that I will carefully choose what is too dangerous and what is

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