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Mind of Me
I would just like to say: This journal is for me. Not for you. If you read it, leave a comment. If you like it, thats great. If not, I dont care. Not to be mean, I love when people read it, but its the truth.
OK, so this is my first entry, I never really had much to write, but latly Ive had a lot happen. So I decided to wrtie a little.So this will be the first.

Last night I was lying on my bed. I didntt have any music on, nor tv, nothing. I was just sitting there. And Ive tried meditating before, but Ive never done anything. My mind is generally to full to just clear my mind.

But last night I did it. My mind was clear, and I got serouse thinking done. Iwas just sitting there in the dark, thinking about every thing that has happened in my life. But it was almost like some one else was thinking it, like it was not my life.

And at the moment I wasnt really sure about anything. I wasnt sure if I was christian or aithiest, straight or gay, beleived in democracy or anarchy. I didnt know any thing. Because at the moment I wasnt me. I wasnt really any one.

I know that doesnt really make much sence, but thats the best I can describe it. But the more I sat there, the more I lost all the thoughts on what I believed.

But personally, if there is a heaven, then I guess thats what it feels like. I felt at peace. I felt calm. Its as if nothing out there mattered, and I really got to think about what I believed. Not the stuff my parents have passed on to me, not what my friends have passed on to me, but just what I felt. Because in reality, we do take things from our parents and friends, and thats what makes us in a way.

I think it was some time towards the middle that I was tired of that, that I was tired of the fact that my beliefs are based on what I have heard from friends and family. That my beliefs werent mine.And then I started to think of what I did beleive in, but didnt get anything.

I started to try to think of specifics, but only got more questions. So Im still not truely sure what I believe, or if I really beleive in anything any more. Maiby Ive just become so numb from all the s**t I go through. My parents are divorced, I live with a step-mom that I hate, and prety much hates me, I cant be with the girl I love.

But I think that now I understand what people mean by they need to "find themselves." I understand why they do it. But above all, I think I learned that maiby this world is more complicated than it seems. And until I find myself, I wont know what to beleive, or what to feel.

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    Flipping Jolly Ranchers
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    Sat Aug 04, 2007 @ 08:38pm


    I understand what you mean..in fact just last year i felt that way. I was raised under a catholic faith. I didnt understand a few things here and there and i was afraid of the word forever..even more- eternity. at this point now, i am agnostic. I try to follow good morals, and if there is a god, they'll judge me by that. :] i think it is awesome that you can look at your life in a different view point. I really enjoyed reading this and hope to see more smile

    ~Ally


    Maggots and Miracles
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    Mon Aug 06, 2007 @ 09:19pm


    finding yourself is highly overrated. I sympathize with you though, not knowing what to believe outside of what you've been taught. There's a lot to be said for believing in what your family and friends do, it helps you all stay bonded, believing in the same stuff and all.

    However, if you have a friend who is say, racist, and you dont agree, dont change yourself for your friend, hold true to what you believe, but dont try to think too hard on what you beleive, what's right comes naturally, to most people (you seem like one of those people, considering you start to question what you believe at all)

    finding yourself is overrated, the more you try to figure out who you are the more you realize how many people are in you and you're an individual because of all the people you've met and the ways that they helped shape you. It sort of goes with collective consciousness. It's impossible for you to be you without aid of everyone around you. (Sorry if I'm confusing)

    Just stick to what you believe, and when you start to question your beliefs, then go to the library or internet and research, look up things like different religions (taoism for one you might like) the more you educate yourself the easier it will be to find something you really believe in, even if your parents arent into it, and your friends arent into it.

    And on a random note, It's good to see someone intelligent on this place (GD), I was starting to lose hope.


    iljfask
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    Tue Aug 07, 2007 @ 10:59pm


    Seems that the last posts were the absolute extremes of support and protest to your entry. Anyway, I'm gonna try and take a neutral stance on this. It's great that you are more at peace and all but all of the context seems a little iffy....

    The thing with beliefs is, everybody has their own. Your parents' and friends' beliefs can't get "passed on" to you in any way because in the end, you choose what it is that you want to believe, like you've said (kinda + nowhere in school did they tell me beliefs were hereditary and contagious, so either I got some faulty schooling, or I dunno what). What that other person said about believing in the same stuff to be close, pah! It's after the fact that you've found what it is you can follow that you find people on the same path and get close through that bond.

    You don't have to follow a religion or to believe in anything to be you. It sure might help, but it doesn't define who you are. You can't not believe in anything. Not believing in anything is something that's hard to believe in. Oh wait, look, I believe in something! Who cares what your sexual orientation is, as long as that's what makes you happy! Politics, I'm not gonna touch that.

    "maiby this world is more complicated than it seems." Haha, good job on that one, I think that most of us figured that out a LONG time ago... sorry, that was rude. Anyway, seeing as how you say you wrote this for you, I don't see why you would want responses on it, so it's kinda contradictory, sorry. Hope that was neutral....


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