So here I am, sitting down on this computer, thinking deeply about beliefs. I realize after watching "The Book of Eli" how much beliefs mean to me. Now I do not talk about just religious beliefs, I talk about all beliefs. I want to leave a trace of this here because it's a milestone for me.
Let me put it out there, there once was a boy who thought he knew everything. He thought he knew what he wanted in life, he thought he had made the choices in life that would set him for success, and he more importantly thought he knew himself.
This boy turned into a man since he walked out the doors of his parental guardians, he learned many things not only about the world around him, but he learned about himself. This is where the plot twists, the story changes chapters, and the truth unfolds. In being the man he was meant to become he found that on the inside was something more, something unique, something wild.
In his finding he embraces it with every fiber of what he is and what he was. It is the only thing that feels real to him and it will be the only real thing to him.
In all this his path turns a unique way and through this, he becomes a man of belief. A man of such great belief in what he has experienced that he himself becomes a teacher of such things.
Yet here's the catch, the antagonist, the struggle. His beliefs are opposed many times over and through this his skin becomes a thick powerful hide. The problem lies though in a love he believes in full heartedly. He has chosen one who he wishes to mate for life. Despite these distances between them he holds her deep in his heart and cannot let go for he knows deep down that it is her that completes him.
Unfortunately this is where things are troubling. She now questions him and believes not of what he is on the inside. This tears a hole in the heart, making him feel transparent and unloved, and it is killing him. The truth of the matter is she said things of which directly attacked him and what he believes to be true.
Yet despite all this he walks this path because he believes in it, his heart is compelled to heal and strengthen and in his love for her, he will only become stronger.
He hopes one day she will understand everything that has happened to him and he still pictures being with her forever. Standing tall, by his side as he walks this path of belief, reaching out to those who look for it, and help those who need help.
Until then though, he will have to stand tall for what he believes and knows what runs through his veins.