I was inspired by a muse
I have to believe in the strengths of people. I have to believe they're smart enough to make the right decisions and wise enough to follow through with them. I have to believe they're tough enough to take something difficult and live through it with the same integrity and respect they've displayed their entire lives. I have to believe that the any of the most subtle or obvious changes will not destroy the people I know and replace them with some foreign entity.
This is the way I've been taught; this is a priceless heirloom passed down to me. This FAITH has been justified and demolished so many times, yet it remains. This undying belief is a constant in my life. It is my anti-despair. It reminds me that we are first and foremost responsible for our own lives, but also that our lives are comprised of all those around us, and that we must take care of them if we, too, are to prosper. We do this simply by doing what resonates rightly in our souls, not to say the soul of a ghost but the spirit of a life well lived. I have to believe in myself, in my strengths, in my weaknesses, in my lot in life. I must assume that no one will change their very soul based solely on a simple whim, or even a stroke of fate, or I have to believe that I am so weak I would do the same. And I have done the same.
But no more.
I'm going back to the world that used to be, back to a world I left behind when I felt unworthy to compete in it. I'm going back to a world where I fight for everything I have and wrestle my life from the clutches of fate. No longer will my needs be dictated to me by their sheer absence, nor my worries inflated by an abundance of hopelessness. I believe you are strong, so I believe I am strong. If you have control, then so can I. If you have FAITH in yourself, then so can I. And I can have FAITH in you, too, because of what you have instilled in me. This is the principle I put forth: life, happiness, everything that is good comes from the sheer and blind FAITH that you place into the world. The next day you will wake up; the people you love will be the same tomorrow; there is nothing to fear; there is nothing to want for that you cannot have. Strength, will, faith: believe in the people around you. Put the strength you amass in them. Believe in them and you can shape them. Believe in them and you can help them. Believe in them and you can love them.
Forgive me for waiting this long to know what FAITH truly is.
This is the way I've been taught; this is a priceless heirloom passed down to me. This FAITH has been justified and demolished so many times, yet it remains. This undying belief is a constant in my life. It is my anti-despair. It reminds me that we are first and foremost responsible for our own lives, but also that our lives are comprised of all those around us, and that we must take care of them if we, too, are to prosper. We do this simply by doing what resonates rightly in our souls, not to say the soul of a ghost but the spirit of a life well lived. I have to believe in myself, in my strengths, in my weaknesses, in my lot in life. I must assume that no one will change their very soul based solely on a simple whim, or even a stroke of fate, or I have to believe that I am so weak I would do the same. And I have done the same.
But no more.
I'm going back to the world that used to be, back to a world I left behind when I felt unworthy to compete in it. I'm going back to a world where I fight for everything I have and wrestle my life from the clutches of fate. No longer will my needs be dictated to me by their sheer absence, nor my worries inflated by an abundance of hopelessness. I believe you are strong, so I believe I am strong. If you have control, then so can I. If you have FAITH in yourself, then so can I. And I can have FAITH in you, too, because of what you have instilled in me. This is the principle I put forth: life, happiness, everything that is good comes from the sheer and blind FAITH that you place into the world. The next day you will wake up; the people you love will be the same tomorrow; there is nothing to fear; there is nothing to want for that you cannot have. Strength, will, faith: believe in the people around you. Put the strength you amass in them. Believe in them and you can shape them. Believe in them and you can help them. Believe in them and you can love them.
Forgive me for waiting this long to know what FAITH truly is.