Worldly Thoughts.

You could say that my introduction to worldly thoughts had an interesting start. As a young boy, my family lived at the top of a hill with a cul de sac. Opposite the house was a green, lined with trees. I was about eight or nine years of age and one day we noticed a man with a book standing in the street facing downhill. He was talking as if to an assembled crowd but there was nobody actually there. He had been talking for a little while when curiosity piqued and my father, who was less physically able, told me to go outside and stand there. I did as I was told and started to listen. Soon, I realised the man was a preacher and fervently seemed to believe what he was saying. Some of the local children started to gather and climbed the trees overhead. They started laughing and calling out. The preacher carried on speaking though, ignoring the distraction. It seemed an enormously long time before the preacher came to the end of what he was saying, by which time nearly everybody had gone. I was a sole spectator. He walked towards me and shook my hand and then left.

Later on thinking about the incident is when I came to the conclusion that my father's action to send me out to listen may have been driven by compassion for the lonely preacher. We did not follow any particular belief.

My next encounter with a faith was when I left school and was presented with a King James version of the bible and a little while later I started to read it. The more I read, although I appreciated the context, for me it increased the confusion of making sense of how things were. I was a scholar of science. For some people, the two could blend but I found I thought about it in terms of two separate categories. After pondering the problem the solution came to me. I concluded that either things happen with intention or they just happen. In fact, on Earth at this time both occur.

After looking at several world views, it became clear to me that in general, interpretation can be a transformative part of many things. I remember visiting a church one time and thinking how I would fight the good fight only to recall how I had the same feeling when I visited a mosque and both feelings had been valid.

As people grow, it is true that they can be shaped by the world and influenced accordingly. I think it is useful to be able to evaluate and build your own perception based on facts and as just judgement as possible. It can be good to be aware of thoughts and ideas, progress and assess altering viewpoints. Ultimately, it is right and good that with maturity a mind might change and even think differently. What I think is crucial is that worldly thoughts help to scope thoughts in the best way and give potential for positive growth.