<p>Growing up in a religious household would be just as you would expect. Church on Sundays, regular meetings in the “Grand Hall” which was nothing really more than a overly decorated basement, Where the pastor would hold his sermons that were always about proclaimed social “Issues” that were destroying America and thrusting her into a dark age. Everyone else stood close by with shut eyes and clogged ears. I was a anomaly. Church for me at least has always been like a radio with a broken volume knob. You can never talk back against the voices nor shut them out. As life continued to to show me more days, growing physically and mentally gathering a expansive collection of new ideas and thoughts. They started to show the world not as straight line rather a rapidly evolving branch of lines that stretched as far and as curved as i could imagine them. But instead of intertwining with the straight lines taught by my earlier childhood. They conflicted in a rapid fashion earlier in my high school career. Remembering times sitting in my aunts car going to school (or from it) during the 10th grade where my mind was left open and free. Thinking about my lines that i accumulated. Still kept locked within me they festered till they were undeniable. I had became a person with truly a unique image far from the straight lines my parents followed. </p>
<pre><code>Realizing now if i were to unlock my far stretching curved lines i would be susceptible to alienation by my own family. Locked down inside myself, a part of me i keep in check only to be shared with my closest friends. Whom sees me not as a secret outcast in my family circle. But as a individual like their self with their own far stretching curvy lines.
Now it being several years later. Looking back i cannot help to wonder why my beliefs had not changed earlier in my life. Maybe it had come with the prospect of maturity. However the occasion, it is still clear the decision to challenge my parent's beliefs and form my own was one that i would make again.
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<p>I wrote this for the CommonApp Question #3 about beliefs.</p>