This would really look weird to anyone trying to get a peak of these words. After all which sane teenager uses an iPad for Ms Doc instead of a Facebook or WhatsApp?
Anyways, point is that I actually have some homework to complete but I just felt an urge to jot down some random thoughts of the day. More particularly about how a friend of mine is looking for answers, answers I'm convinced she would find no where else except from within herself.
Well, if I happen to write this article till the end and eventually forward it to her I’m sure that I wouldn't not come off as being creepy-‐ they are used to my eccentric nature.
I think that she’ll feel honored as always to have someone describing her. Why not? She has a character you would want to sit down and write about. And that ‘s exactly what I'll be doing, right?
Well, this friend of mine comes from an extremely religious family, one that follows all the ethics, customs and traditions and observe all rituals as they are people of great faith.
Her family would easily be comparable to a typical 2000s Ekta Kapoor’s soap family-‐ minus the Ba and joint family under one roof. What I mean is that, they consult priests for everything and have what they call their Family Priest just like you would have a Family Doctor.
Religion is truly mixed in every aspect of their life, for the least I know that's how she puts it forth. What’s more is that endogamy is strictly a matter of not only honor but also of your sacredness as a person. I cannot stop myself from emphasizing the number of times she either relates stories of how inter caste marriage is the biggest no no of her clan. And to talk of inter-religious marriage is sheer sacrilege defined. While ‘her own religion’ has become something she has started to see as plaguing her firm belief that “God is One and that everyone is human(-‐and any human can marry any human)”, she set out for concrete answers in vain.
As she related her deception during chemistry classes today, I do recognize a former self of myself in her. One trying to have a full, impartial clear and free of paradoxes understanding of her religion. A self seeking to hear what she intuitively has always believed but made to think she is wrong by so called upholders of traditions, customs and rituals.
Of course, you as a youth of the 21st century reading this can relate to her. You do not entirely believe in what is being told to you but then up you accept it.
This is a condition that could go on the whole of your life until one day these turn into your biggest nightmare.. Until one day they rob you of your grandest part of your soul and stomp on your grandest means of expression: your freedom and your thoughts.
She must most probably have reached that stage now, where religion is impinging on her
desires to raise above endogamy.
I most probably reached that point where religion no more answered my questions.
You could also have reached that point when science sounded much more rational than religion did.
But then I have also moved past that point. Today I have come to respect religion after three years of well-‐embraced atheism.
Why? Because I believe I have been able to decipher and interpret religion as a science and art of living rather than a blind faith. I have also come to know that my questions had no foundations earlier. That is why they never had any answers. They answers didn't belong to religion to reply. For the answers had always lied deep within me. And it’s religion entwined with spirituality and science that taught me this.
Questions like: Is God really one? Where do we come from? Why this and not this? Are
pronounced from ignorance.
But it’s good to ask these questions. However, to expect to hear what ‘religion’ has always said or what society has always said is the wrong way to ask a question.
Unless you are ready to brace the truth don't dare ask questions.
And if you mean to hear only what you want to hear, don't bother asking the question.
However, if you wish to generate more questions by hearing an answer you never ever could have conceived, shoot that question straight away.
Anyways, point is that I actually have some homework to complete but I just felt an urge to jot down some random thoughts of the day. More particularly about how a friend of mine is looking for answers, answers I'm convinced she would find no where else except from within herself.
Well, if I happen to write this article till the end and eventually forward it to her I’m sure that I wouldn't not come off as being creepy-‐ they are used to my eccentric nature.
I think that she’ll feel honored as always to have someone describing her. Why not? She has a character you would want to sit down and write about. And that ‘s exactly what I'll be doing, right?
Well, this friend of mine comes from an extremely religious family, one that follows all the ethics, customs and traditions and observe all rituals as they are people of great faith.
Her family would easily be comparable to a typical 2000s Ekta Kapoor’s soap family-‐ minus the Ba and joint family under one roof. What I mean is that, they consult priests for everything and have what they call their Family Priest just like you would have a Family Doctor.
Religion is truly mixed in every aspect of their life, for the least I know that's how she puts it forth. What’s more is that endogamy is strictly a matter of not only honor but also of your sacredness as a person. I cannot stop myself from emphasizing the number of times she either relates stories of how inter caste marriage is the biggest no no of her clan. And to talk of inter-religious marriage is sheer sacrilege defined. While ‘her own religion’ has become something she has started to see as plaguing her firm belief that “God is One and that everyone is human(-‐and any human can marry any human)”, she set out for concrete answers in vain.
As she related her deception during chemistry classes today, I do recognize a former self of myself in her. One trying to have a full, impartial clear and free of paradoxes understanding of her religion. A self seeking to hear what she intuitively has always believed but made to think she is wrong by so called upholders of traditions, customs and rituals.
Of course, you as a youth of the 21st century reading this can relate to her. You do not entirely believe in what is being told to you but then up you accept it.
This is a condition that could go on the whole of your life until one day these turn into your biggest nightmare.. Until one day they rob you of your grandest part of your soul and stomp on your grandest means of expression: your freedom and your thoughts.
She must most probably have reached that stage now, where religion is impinging on her
desires to raise above endogamy.
I most probably reached that point where religion no more answered my questions.
You could also have reached that point when science sounded much more rational than religion did.
But then I have also moved past that point. Today I have come to respect religion after three years of well-‐embraced atheism.
Why? Because I believe I have been able to decipher and interpret religion as a science and art of living rather than a blind faith. I have also come to know that my questions had no foundations earlier. That is why they never had any answers. They answers didn't belong to religion to reply. For the answers had always lied deep within me. And it’s religion entwined with spirituality and science that taught me this.
Questions like: Is God really one? Where do we come from? Why this and not this? Are
pronounced from ignorance.
But it’s good to ask these questions. However, to expect to hear what ‘religion’ has always said or what society has always said is the wrong way to ask a question.
Unless you are ready to brace the truth don't dare ask questions.
And if you mean to hear only what you want to hear, don't bother asking the question.
However, if you wish to generate more questions by hearing an answer you never ever could have conceived, shoot that question straight away.