The Partner

Authors Notes

There will always be extremes and there will always be groups that oppose each other. You may find yourself joining one, one day and that is fine. Everyone has things they believe. But please remember what you believe and look at what you are doing. Don't let your beliefs consume you, don't let them take away your humanity. Look at what you believe and decide whether what you believe is truly what you believe and not something you need to fill a void, something that you don't truly believe but something that you are using as an excuse, or as a way to fix your life. Be careful as beliefs when used in this way will try to provide you with an answer to all your problems, but the truth is that there is no such thing as a fix-all. They are only illusions that will not help you, but change the very person you are. There is never only one correct answer to life, following one ideal or one group because you think they will solve your problems is naïve. The truth is hard to accept at times, but it is necessary if one is to move on. Accept the truths in life, and know what you believe and if you are willing to give up everything for them. Yet this doesn't mean everything will have a truth. Some things will not have only one truth, and for those, a person may still believe what they wish. However, hurt, pain, suffering, frustration, compliance, peer pressure all of these will try to get the better of you and will make you see something that doesn't exist-will make you believe things that aren't true. They will try to change you into someone else-someone who won't easily if at all change back. They will make you do things that you may disagree with, or that you despise. This is what beliefs may do when they are used in the wrong way-as a source for attention that you require- especially if they are not of your own but of someone else's. At times, perhaps believing something is true to avoid putting yourself in danger will be an option... and in these cases, you may choose to do what you feel is right. What is right is not up for me to define, but for the individual themselves. What is right is never truly clear, nor will it ever be unless you decide for yourself if what you decide and what you choose is right-and whether your beliefs are as well. Don't let the world decide what is right for you. Just live a good life and try to do what's right, and keep an open mind about the ethics of your beliefs and be cautious of those you follow, while trying your hardest to be a good person. Yet all I can do is give advice, whether you read this and agree or not isn't up to me. Some of us will fall and we won't simply change back. After all, were only human, and that isn't a bad thing at all, because we have the choice of deciding what's right for ourselves.

Truth, remember, is what cannot be changed.