I scrolled through Twitter earlier and I was greeted by a lot of responses to like faith and religion, this conversation came from someone asking, ‘What does ‘Faith’ mean to you?’

Faith literally means believing in someone or some idea without any logical proof or rationale. The belief should be unshakable and strong to be classified as Faith. If it is swaying with mood, then it’s just another thought in your thought producing factory – ‘brain’.

Before I continue I have to admit that I grew up in church, I had bad experiences dealing with people within the church community because of varying reasons but I did not have traumatic experiences thankfully unlike a lot of my peers. Those acts, are usually illegal, and outright wrong and nasty, I condemn then and I hope that those will be unearth and dealt with. I am also not blind that a lot people hide their trauma behind religion and there is a lot of hypocrisy and unrealistic expectations.

My issue though comes from people attacking religion and not attacking the people who hide behind religion. I wouldn’t call myself a Christian as I don’t know if I believe some things that the organized religion of Christianity believe but I do believe in God. People may have the assumption that because you believe in God that means you agree with all the wrongs that Christians have done in the past and the horrible ones existing today. To me it is much more complicated than that, I compare it to that of family (since Christians is known as the family of God) – when you are a part of a family, there are good family members, there are bad family members, there are horrible ideologies and viewpoints within family and there are really progressive views. There is no ‘organized’ structure that is fool proof and completely right in my eyes – usually the best results are had when it is put together by the person experiencing it first-hand, no one size fits all. Knowing for yourself what you believe and ascribe to is essential for giving your life direction even if it doesn’t include a religious affiliation.

Faith to me means the ability to keep going irrespective of the obstacles. Yes, religions have given it a different meaning but if you think deeper, you would realise it’s probably pretty much all the same.

You know you are going to be alive the next moment/second. Every breath you inhale and exhale, is an assurity that you are alive, but there are people who don't get to have the next breath, they die.

We, who were born and are destined to die live on faith (knowingly or unknowingly), whether you like it or not is what keeps us going – you literally make plans for a future you are not promised. The sad fact is that when one hears the word faith, it is tied to religion. It basically means to not give up, which I had mentioned earlier in the answer.

Faith means that in my mind, everything is going to be okay in the end. That doesn’t EVER mean that things always happen when or the way we want them to but the fact that you will be okay with what happens. That you WILL make it through. Life is hard and not fair and it’s like that for a reason. If it was easy then we wouldn’t be able to learn and grow into better people. Having faith gets you through your trials and after the trial you choose how you learn from it. You choose for it to make you better or bitter.