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January 23, 2002 (Wednesday) I was born. I’m ninety-five percent sure it was “blizzard-like” or at least a heavy snow. I was a very ugly baby; I looked like a boy and I did up until I was ten. My story isn’t special in any way, I haven’t made my mark on the world yet, but maybe in fifteen years I’ll be able to look back at this personal narrative and I’ll understand why I am who I am. When I was born, I was born into religion, obviously not my choice but I’m under my parents’ rules until I’m eighteen. My parents raised me as a Jehovah’s Witness, teaching me to have high morals and to believe in god. Personally, I don’t believe in a god, but it wasn’t always this way. When I started middle school, I didn’t really know who I was, …show more content…

My friend, CeCe, started to tell me about what she believed- that there was no god. I didn’t want to hear it at first, I just wanted to be right. But finally, I started to really think and meditate on what she was saying and it made me realize my religion wasn’t the only religion that could make sense. Since she didn’t believe in a god, she relied on sciences to tell her about our world. It was then that I realized that no matter your religion, whatever you believe in is right. It’s what you choose to believe and whatever that belief is, it’s correct in your eyes. No one can tell you any different. One god, two gods, infinite gods, or no god(s). When it comes to religion, there’s not much to truly back up whatever you believe in. So any one of our religions could be correct. But she began to teach me about the things she believed in would tell me why she didn’t believe, and to me, it made more sense to believe in nothing than one singular god. It made more sense to be opening and caring to everyone, instead of shunning one or more groups, (gays, trans, “the immoral”, etc.) I began to treat everyone with the same respect, no matter your gender, color, religion, or sexual preference. Everyone deserves kindness, which sounds kind of hypocritical coming from me because most don’t find me to be open and

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