I think it's a good question.
I was raised Pentecostal. I'm also a lesbian. Life slowly conspired to turn my views atheist. (For which I am intensely grateful!)
My parents disowned my brother and me in the late '80's due to orientation and religion issues.
I have battled depression, and understand what it is to feel suicidal.
I have multiple advanced degrees, which, due to poor choices and economic changes, never helped me find a good-paying job.
I have not been successful with relationships, and have been single for decades.
What do I live for? I sometimes wonder myself. I do have some family left - a great brother and a couple o' cousins.
I do think there is something special about taking the chance to help others when we can.
But you know, being an atheist . . . we're alive. This is all we get. Somehow, that makes a beautiful sunset, or a lovely
fire on a cold night, or time chatting with friends over a bottle of wine - - more precious. And committing suicide simply
wastes that time, it destroys the opportunity to be grateful for what we are given in the limited time we have.
I was raised Pentecostal. I'm also a lesbian. Life slowly conspired to turn my views atheist. (For which I am intensely grateful!)
My parents disowned my brother and me in the late '80's due to orientation and religion issues.
I have battled depression, and understand what it is to feel suicidal.
I have multiple advanced degrees, which, due to poor choices and economic changes, never helped me find a good-paying job.
I have not been successful with relationships, and have been single for decades.
What do I live for? I sometimes wonder myself. I do have some family left - a great brother and a couple o' cousins.
I do think there is something special about taking the chance to help others when we can.
But you know, being an atheist . . . we're alive. This is all we get. Somehow, that makes a beautiful sunset, or a lovely
fire on a cold night, or time chatting with friends over a bottle of wine - - more precious. And committing suicide simply
wastes that time, it destroys the opportunity to be grateful for what we are given in the limited time we have.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
