The longer you wait, the harder it gets to find your purpose, but when you do, I think that’s living life to the fullest. I believe though that everyone has a gift, and if you realize what that gift is soon enough, your purpose becomes clear. I believe that not everyone is born with a purpose. I haven’t been around very long, so I don’t have a great idea of what I believe, but here it is. Hello! My name is Niko Carvajal, and I’ve been asked what I believe. I hope to reach the balance, make a difference, and be the best person I can be. Whether it is caring what people think but being true to yourself in middle school, to being gentle yet firm with your children later in life. You must a find a balance in anything you do. I believe that in order to be the best person you can, you must be in the middle of the spectrum.

In the Coming of age program, there was an activity in which people had to decide where they stood on issues that were both important, but different, such as accepting other religions versus taking a stand against a dangerous belief. In order to be the best person you can be, you need to find a balance. To strive to be better is always the way to go. I guess what I am really trying to say is that you have to be the best person you can be, and that is my guiding light. If I was to list all my beliefs and values, you would be here all day. And you should be able to be yourself fully, and without regret. Everyone deserves a chance to be heard, to be happy, and to make a difference in the world. Accepting others is important, even if your views and way of life are different, even opposite. Justice and fairness should be held highly, but love and friendship even more. You must be good to others, even if they aren’t to you. I will probably continue to explore, but the doubt and hope in my mind are balanced out.Īlthough I don’t believe in god, I do believe in values. So I am agnostic for now, and choose to accept the fact that there is no way to know. Maybe there is no god at all, and I am kidding myself over analyzing it. Maybe there is a little bit of god in all of us. Maybe god is just the conscience inside of us saying what is right, what is wrong, and who we turn out to be. I have gone through so many theories, but discarded them almost overnight. It’s too cruel a world for that, and no supreme being would just allow things like the holocaust to happen. I strongly believe that if there is/are (a) god he/she/they have/has no impact on our choices. I can’t come to terms that there is a god ruling over us, but I just can’t accept the fact we are alone. But what do I believe? I have reached a paradox. You know, for a god that is supposed to be loving, he sure has no problem wiping out the population every once in a while. Incest? It’s not that I don’t believe in miracles, I just don’t believe they are caused by god. A lot of theories were made up, from different types of reincarnation, to heaven and hell, to nothingness.Īlso I believe totally in evolution, and my sense of logic prevents me from believing many things in the bible, such as Noah’s ark, even Adam and Eve. It’s weird as well the thoughts of god in my childhood were almost non-existent, while thoughts of what happened when your body was dead were abundant. I don’t believe that amazing people like the Dalai Lama, or Buddha, should be banished to the fiery pits of hell just because they didn’t believe in the right god.

Well, I guess I just don’t believe in a day of judgment, in which not only your character, but your devotion to god, decides whether or not you live (I mean die) in blissfulness or torture for the rest of your life. Heaven and hell, I don’t think they exist.

I know it is kind of morbid, but a lot of the reason why I don’t believe in a biblical god is because of death.

The following Credos were presented by the Coming of Age Class on JComing of Age 2011

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