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Being good is such a difficult task for a modern man. Man has become so sophisticated and smart that he can no longer accept a higher being which is God. One of the reasons why it is so hard to be good is human pride. Sometimes I cannot bear to admit that there is anything beyond human existence. I become overconfident thinking that I could make it without God. I get ashamed to admit that I need help from God. There are times when I want to go to Mass but after a while I get lazy. I think of what others would think about me. In my head I think they’ll say: “Why does Rhea keep praying? She doesn’t even benefit from it. She acts like an old person. She is such a goody-goody.” Whenever those sentences pop from my head, I decide that I should not go to Mass. The second reason why I find it hard to be good is peer pressure. I want to go with the flow. In these modern times, I hardly see any teenager who goes to Mass everyday. Sometimes I feel different when I try to do good. In school sometimes, I feel like I am one of the few people who do not cheat. For example a friend asks me to tell her the questions found in a test. I do not tell her because that is cheating and second because it is unfair. That friend gets mad and wants to get back at me. She’ll tease me. When she does this, I get so mad because I hate people who tease me. The third reason is that people in this world are into so many vices: drugs, alcohol, smoking, premarital sex, watching X-rated films, rape and murder. Since a lot of people do bad things I feel like I could do a few bad things since a lot of people do it.
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