I was privileged to grow up in a religious home specifically, Christianity and I would say I hold no regrets to that because while I get older, I see more reasons why I should embrace Christianity. I mean no disrespect to other people's beliefs but I think the more research I do about my religion, I see more reasons not to change to any religion because of the freedom and privileges I continue to enjoy from my religion.
I grew up in a religious home where my parents are super serious when it comes to the things of God. None of them were a clergy but they uphold that standard of religious lifestyle more like the house of a pastor or Reverend. That fact that I grew up in such environment really contributed allot to my lifestyle as an adult right now, I just can but only imagine how it would've been for me if I didn't go through this path. I've seen people that tend to behave differently from the circles they came from. Some came from a very rough and unstable background but later on used their hands to change their stories while others never got the chance or opportunity to.
It's quite a bit difficult building character and standards that you weren't brought up with from scratch, compared to maintaining the standard that you were been brought up with. Majority never get to change their minds and state of thinking because of how extremely polluted their past was. My heart goes to those people and I really do understand what it means to find yourself in such situation.
I'm enjoying the privilege of growing under my both Christian parents. We grew up with some of these standards, wise up and still keep to them because we've seen the light in them and how they've positively affect our lifestyle, not that we can't change to whatever we want to be but because there's no need since we are where we want to be.
I learnt morals, obedience, self respect and empathy through my Christian parents. They groomed me up into a simple and conserve individual. They thought me how to differentiate bad from evil and which side I should always stand on no matter how tough the road gets.
Do I feel enslaved? Hell no! Of course there are rules and regulations that guides how I live and behave generally. So does that mean I'm caged not to be the person I want to be? Or let me ask, where on earth are there no rules and still, orderliness is maintained in that environment or jurisdiction? I don't think there's any. Or let's think of it this way. Can you be suppressed by certain laws and orders from specific individual that still gives you the right and liberty to leave anytime you want to live?
This is what I grew up into, a religious home that have me everything single thing I need to be a better man in future. We derive our way of life from the Bible and that's our moral stand point as a family that believes in Jesus. Shout out to my parents for choosing this path and also passing it down to wet the children.
Thank you for reading through my entry for Hive Learners weekly contest for week 226 episode 3.
