by Shara Thepsenavong

Created on: October 30, 2008

In one part of the world, women are forced to crawl and men are put down by the government. Old men sit on the side of the deserted roads and bombs explode because of differences between two people. Oil is running less while some wouldn't care and be on their feet for another four mile walk to school. Cancer runs about and food is scarce. Murder, unexplained emotions, war, phsychological illness...is there a Savior for them? Is there God watching me even now? Where is God?!

The teenage life is the biggest transformation from a child to an adult. It is the time to see the world for what it holds and to reason with all the crazy ends. It is the time when a person chooses what they will believe in and hold in their heart for the next hundred years of their lives. If there is a hundred years.

As a teen, I used to think of all these things to the point I would even feel empty. A walking black hole. Nothing made sense and all these horrible things commited and I felt like I didn't want to believe in anything. Let me rephrase that: I felt there wasn't anything to believe in. People are raped, People kill, and People lie. It felt like I lived in a hungry world where even I would end up heartless.

Then I thought of unfairness. Was it fair to judge this infinite world on the extreme actions of other people? I wanted to kick myself awake! You see, religion is not just some devotion you can hold on to, it's to wake you up. From bad morals, from isolation, from ignorance...it's faith. Wish it or not, volcanoes don't erupt because of a wizard or people don't win every war because of their status. Rivers aren't only for bathing and a bathtub of water can save a person from a fire. What happens in life itself is something WE do not control. That's why God is there to be the hope for the lost, but what we CAN control is our actions and what we aim to do.

To me, God or Artemis or Buddha aren't our punishers because we are sinful, they are our invisible guides. You can go down one path or the other. Like when you die, does God burn you and and banish you? You don't know, you aren't dead. I believe you either believe in the key of your soul or in the tears of it. Human souls are meant to change, or we wouldn't even have emotions.

Imagine a white pebble. You are holding it. In one direction is a bright fiery light and a pair of wings aiming to fly. Behind you are all your boosts or weights pushing you or drowning you while some inexplainable force keeps leading you foward trying to

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