Here Part 2.

Sounding falsely bitter & ungrateful... part II

Ryan & I don't go to church.

We haven't in a very long time.

This post isn't about why we don't.

I honestly hate talking about religion unless you are very special.

There are a very select few that I'm okay with discussing beliefs with.

I just don't think it's something that everyone needs to talk about it

& I don't really think it's anyone's business really.

You either like me or you don't

& you can decide that without knowing all the details

of my faith or belief systems.

That's the way I see it. It's just like politics.

I don't like my neighbors because they're Christians.

I like my neighbors because they're sweet & good people

& they're the kind of people that you know would help if you asked.

I like my boss & he totally buys in to global warming & abortions.

But I like him because he's funny & his heart is in the right place.

He's a good man & doctor & he cares.

Get it?

That brings me to my actual point of

why do people go to church on Easter & Christmas

when they don't go the rest of the year?

No matter peoples beliefs, there they are,

twice a year, sitting in churches, being people they're usually not.

All of America comes out of the woodwork to buy a pretty dress

& curl their hair to sit in a pew & act like they do this all the time.

Well, I don't do this all of the time so why do it then?

Going to church is simply not a part of who Ryan & I are.

I don't see what the big deal is.

It is simply not for us. That is it.

If 2012 taught me anything,

it taught me that I don't give two shits 

about what people think of me 

& what I should do with my life.

I believe what I believe.

I do what I want to do.

I don't care about what society thinks I should be doing

& how it thinks I should live my life.
I don't care about how you're "supposed" to be a Christian.
Who makes the rules of how we're to live?
Who decides what's important in our lives?
Who decides that everything is black & white?
Who decides that you have to be this or that?
In my life, I do.
& I think everyone should live that way.
Why do we listen to what society has made?

I have no anger or bitterness or resentment in my heart
for anything or anyone.
I know that certain people will look at this post
& worry & think that I've fallen off some sort of wagon.

But in fact, I feel the exact opposite:

Free.