(thoughts on professions of faith)
As I've been listening to/reading Meet Me in the Bathroom, talking to Maya about the religious statuses of the "cool" people of Athens, talking to Blythe about how she got plugged in to a church in Edinburgh, and hearing witness to the professions of faith in the media & in books by people like Blaketheman1000 and Britney Spears, I've come to the ultimate realization.I have it in my head that faith is uncool and to fit in and make friends in the city, I'll have to hide that part of myself, which would likely cause me to run the risk of losing that part of myself altogether. This part of myself that is me.
But what I've realized is that faith isn't uncool. What's uncool is pretending to be something I'm not
My faith is what makes me, me. It's what lights me up even more than learning about musicians and their songs. I don't have to leave it behind just to fit in with a downtown scene or within academia. What makes these spaces special is how everyone is coming from a different place and going in a different direction – that's the very value of diversity. They don't care what I believe, not in the way that I had been thinking they would. They are about coming together with people who aren't afraid to live into the fullness of who they are.
I can go live in a city and my love for rock music and pop culture and music journalism can all come too. I'll make friends by being me
Side note: Draft from "This Fall" on Nov. 30th:
I know I was supposed to be in Athens
New York would have chewed my soul up
I would have gotten swept up in it all