• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      Actually as a kid I realized that what I was taught in the bible and church were metaphors and not things to be taken literally. I mean, a lot of it went against what we learned in school, and school actually made sense.

      Only much later in my teens did I realize that many Christians do take the Bible literally. It was then that I decided to completely abandon my religion.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Friends can matter to you more than family, and that’s ok, but family does a lot more for you than you realize.

    I didn’t have a great family, but it was only when I was upset about a birthday party when I was like 12 where my mom made all the cards and buttons and stuff and I was so mad that it wasn’t the cool cards and prizes that you buy that I kind of realized it.

    It dawned on me like two weeks later that my parents couldn’t afford any of that, but they took time out of their day, for like two weeks, even though they both worked too much, to hand-make approximations as best they could. Without me knowing, so I would be surprised.

    Ever work a double shift and then spend the few minutes you have not working, sleeping, or cooking to hand-make party favors? Yeah, me either.

    It still makes me cry thinking about how ungrateful I was and the look of sadness and yearning on my mom’s face when I got mad at her for not buying the “good” stuff.

    When I was 20, I sat her down and told her about it and how bad I felt, and how I never knew how to apologize for it. We had a good cry, and she thanked me for seeing it eventually, and how happy it retroactively made her knowing I realized it so soon after.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I used to spend a lot of energy being concerned what other people thought of me. How I dressed, how I acted, what I owned, etc. One day I realized 2 things:

    1. Most people are too busy thinking about themselves to spare any meaningful thoughts for me.

    2. I’m never going to see most of these people ever again so it doesn’t matter what they think.

    After that I started directing that energy into making sure that I approved of my choices rather than hoping strangers would.