There are many aspects in my life that I have been told to question in my life. Sometimes I tend to question things myself, without any prior warning. I believe that people naturally inherit discernment, but we are also easily influenced, and can be raised to believe things that are too hard to discern from right and wrong. As I got older, I naturally began to question more things, which made life much more complicated and more depressing for me. In reality, the many “truths” we were fostered to respect and adulate are not as pristine as we once saw. With age, we start to see the less obvious truths as they really are. Quickly I was able to dismiss the ideology of Santa Claus, because I decided for myself that he is not real, when he brought me only Korean things. These situations may be the reason why people created the word, “obvious”.
In my life, one of my greatest struggles was being a faithful Christian. By the time I was in middle school and really started reading the Bible for myself, I felt really guilty because I thought the Bible was made up of fictional stories. Even from Genesis. Despite my many struggles, my belief for God has been fortified. I do try hard to believe the Bible, but at many times its hard, so I just force myself to accept it. Now I think it is time for me to stop forcing myself to believe Christianity, but to actually read the Bible (not just one verse every month) and discern if I can accept it as the truth. Bible is a collection of people’s perspectives of God’s words, and it has been around for a long time, and also has been translated many times. In this long period of time, it is highly likely that it has been touched and rewritten by the wrong hands. Maybe if I read the Bible, I can come to understand that it may be the truth. I also didn’t read The DaVinci Code because I was told that it was blasphemous, but maybe if I read it I can see the truth of the Bible from another perspective.
Another thing I would like to question is the news. I am guilty of being gullible at many times. I also gained the ideology, since I was a child, that the news offers the information on events. It is never taught to children that it is not just the information station, but many corporations exploit for power. I would like to watch the news more, and question what is being said by an anchor who just reads off the teleprompter.
There is one thing that is my true enigma. I try the hardest to understand it but I still don’t even know the half of my mind. It is really ironic that I don’t even know my true thoughts. The problem with me is that my conscious mind constantly lies to my subconscious mind. I want to be able to decipher which of my thoughts are lies and which are the truth, and what I really think.
I would like to go deeper and uncover the truth of these three things.
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