This week I wanted to post an article that on the surface, may seem very pessimistic. This is a credo. An “I believe" statement if you will. It's something that I think encompasses me as a person though when I wrote this a year and a half ago, I felt the need to preface it. I briefly stated on my behalf, that the reality is, we people can feel very strongly about something one day and the next day that mindset can change. It's the thought that our nature and ideas can be challenged by the ebb and flow of life. Though I believe that to be true, my credo is something that challenges a lot of belief systems that many hold very close to their hearts. So if you intend to read it and I hope you do, bear in mind this could be in juxtaposition to much of what you believe. It is not a judgment of others, but rather an observation from my point of view.

As writers, we tell our truth however unpopular that may be. Sometimes that truth hurts other people and sometimes it saves them, but the truth of the craft always comes out in the end. Somehow it always weasels its way into our work.

I believe I'm alone, and if I am not, the faces like my own hide in a crowd of those who believe in everything. If you believe in everything, you believe in nothing enough. If you think you're like me but say nothing, you're not. I believe love means little to most and nothing to the rest. I believe that fun comes from something simpler, that it cannot be bought, smoked, or drank. I believe that those who claim they want it, believe their own lies. I believe that people don't want to succeed, they expect to. I believe we don't deserve the chances we keep getting and the chances we keep giving.
I believe I'm alone. I believe that if you tell the world you did good, you did it for yourself. I believe in true morality. I believe that if you don't know what that is, you don't have it. I believe that God hates religion; that a non-believer that does good should go to heaven and a worshiper that does bad cannot be saved. I believe that if I cannot go to heaven for good acts, that heaven is hell and heaven is filled with demons. I believe human beings are inherently evil and those who have the strength to work against it can be good. I believe that there are still original thoughts. I believe I'm alone. I believe I can be proven wrong.

If you're ever wondered what you believe, I have found this to be an interesting exploration of self.