ABSINRAW

Beliefs are based on the lived experiences. These lived experiences can be a person’s, or of someone else (if wiser). However, the beliefs are the foundations on which the trajectories of life are based. The only way to strengthen one’s belief is by striving to find the chink in its armour. Continuous bombardment of logic while exposing to intense pressure of varied situations and outcomes in different permutations leads to its growth. This growth doesn’t stack up layer by layer but often strips bare and rebuilds from scratch. That’s my belief about belief.

Lately I’ve come across a different approach towards strengthening one’s belief, which has been gaining a lot of popularity across the globe. This approach states to stand guard over the foundation, and double down during night shift. We ought to save our belief from anyone who dares to point even a finger at it and break it into two while shoving them in their eyes, so that they don’t dare to point towards someone else’s belief. The escalation with the intensity spike in the last sentence is a must.

This approach is also a reflection of an ever-present stench of aggressiveness in the air which easily catches on fire. This is true especially online where the innumerable empty husks of self-pity, worthlessness and jealousy dressed as opinions are stacked. This fire which fed on these empty stacks has now started burning down people themselves, apart from their beliefs. Voices have started to lose themselves into silence either in fear or resignation, as the question that if the belief has even been tested enough to be called one does not exist anymore. It was burned down a few years ago.

As this fire grows, I can only pray that my armour lasts enough to let me rebuild it again, stronger.