Break The Mould : Rebecca Karitons
Don’t you just hate it when people
expect you to be a certain person and conform to certain standards? I hear
people at college and when I was at school take the mic out of people for the
stupidest of things, like the way they worded a tweet or the way they say a
certain thing or play a certain instrument, etc. Who said we have to do this a certain
way? Who said we have to dress like that? Who said because we believe in a
phenomenal, awe inspiring God we have to hate gays, be against everyone who
does anything we don't believe in, and walk around speaking only language from
the bible. WHO?! And yet nearly every single young person and adult continues
to go around believing the thing that requires the least arguments and
defending. Barely anybody has the balls to stand up
for what they believe to be true and speak their mind. When I say that I don’t
being harsh and nasty to people, but standing firm in your faith and staying
integers when it isn’t comfortable.
What I've noticed in my short time at
college is how easily people are influenced (me included) and I don't
necessarily mean in a good way. Its amazing how easily people are manipulated
by those their own age by of either flirting, or the 'offering of a bine
(cigarette) ' etc. I feel like the odd one out standing watching a theater
play. Now I’m not dissing the college I go to or the people in it because I
absolutely love them all and they make every single day at college awesome and
hilarious, they’re brilliant. But what I’m saying is that I hate this 'mould'
I’m expected to fit as a teenager in this day and age, especially as a music
student. The 'sex, drugs, alcohol, and all that other stuff is not me, I'm not
one to go out partying every weekend and get drunk or have sex with random
people all the time, or at all. Now I don't care if I get absolutely slated at
college tomorrow for this, because I’m simply voicing my opinion and I’m
allowed to. I'm doing something that many people have the opportunity to do,
but take the easy route out of doing; because it's 'not what people do these
days'.
I guess what I’m trying to say in the
most easiest way to understand as possible is that you DO NOT have to smoke to
be cool, have sex to be mature, wear loads of makeup to be considered
attractive, flirt to get attention, and hate on people who disagree with what
you believe. You have your own mind, your own opinions, your own talents, your
own amazing quirky things, and you are loved to pieces by an amazing God who
only wants the best for you. So please don't be a sheep. Be unconventional, but
in the best way possible, and for the best reasons possible. Don't shut up sit
down and be quiet. Stand up, speak up, and scream it as loud as possible.
I pray that this week God will give you
the boldness to stay strong in your faith and when the awkward questions come
and the peer pressure sets in you will not be phased but know that God is
bigger that your situation and that he will reward you for your steadfast
faith. I also pray that rather than fitting the mould, you would start to
create a new mould of breaking the mould, so people would see through your way
of doing life that you don’t have to fit in, but you can live different and
live well. Amen.
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