What value do you refuse to compromise?
Posted on Oct 11th, 2007
by
Yogi
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 08, 2007:
Of all my values (and I feel that, as a college student I surprisingly have a lot) I refuse to compromise my religious ones. In a time where religion is almost become a taboo, I refuse to step down when the ideas that being a Catholic are considered wrong. I was brought up a devout Catholic. I went to church every Sunday, not just on High Holy Days. I was an active member of my church and I liked doing these things. I taught religious education. It was fun. I loved teaching 7 year olds why they went to Church every week. And let's face it. There is nothing wrong with that.
People of my generation find it hard to believe that some individuals don't want to go out every weekend and find a new person to sleep with. They aren't looking for "some action". When I go to a club, I'm looking to go out with my friends and have a good time. We want to dance to some great music. And if we happen to have a drink, it's simply because we feel like having one, not because we have to, not because we are looking to get drunk, but simply because we felt like having one. I have never gotten drunk. I have never blacked out. And I know that I am in a small majoity of college students who act in such a manner.
I refuse to compromise my morals and who I am simply to fit in with the 'in crowd'. I am not going to get drunk, sleep around, and do poorly in school, just to be seen as someone who's with it. I'm going to go to church, study, wait till I'm married and when I go out, go out simply to just have fun, not get drunk. Because that's who I am and I refuse to lose myself to please someone else.

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