About my belief....

I have been thinking a lot about my belief that I had posted yesterday, and how hard it really is to follow it. There have been many trials and tribulations in my life that would definitely go against the belief that there is a brighter side at the end of the tunnel. When listening to Prof. Gay today in class, he said how sometimes we use declarations, like our beliefs, as something that we force ourselves to believe in because of the fact that it is in fact the complete opposite of what we have experienced in our lives. This statement hit me to the core. It is easy to say that you can completely love yourself for who you are, but then there is that moment of vulnerability in which someone says one thing to challenge your existence that makes you feel just as empty as when you started. That one thing about your personality that you tried so hard to surpass and move on from, and drags it right back into existence without hesitation. As I said before, isn't so much easier to say the negative before looking at the positive in a person? When will they realize we are all here for the same reasons, to survive in this cutthroat world and have someone there to keep our head up, not help it fall....