My Life

Kiaya Nickens

Sanchez – period 8

September 3, 2012

Christian in the World

                                               

Blog Entry #1: My Life

If people could only write a page listing everything that was important about them, what would you write? Would your main focus of the paper be about your religion or would your achievements and accolades overpower the focus? The question of who someone is can be answered simply by knowing ones religion. Religion has always been the answer to the question of who I am. As a practicing Baptist I know who I am based on my religion. Being a Baptist is my foundation, I'm caring, loving and a follower of God. I love to simply live life and experience all of its wonders.

From my introduction, it’s evident that the one aspect of life that I find most valuable is religion. So many people in the world base success on the achievements and accolades the have gained. But I base my success in life a person based on what kind of Christian and overall follower of Christ I have been. Truthfully I am not fully educated about all of the fine details that has to do with being a Baptist. I’ve only taken out a few key points from my religion. Those being that when you’re in doubt on something, need help searching for answer to something, or if you simply need to talk to someone Jesus Christ is the one to go to. He is the only person that will always listen to my problems and concerns and will never judge me based on them.

One aspect of a person’s life that go hand and hand with religion, is one’s culture or their way of life. My family and I have a very simplistic culture within our family. Many of my friends say my family culture is odd, but it’s a normality in my eyes. An aspect of my family culture that is unique, and even odd to some is the amount of time my family and I spend with each other. We spend a great deal of our time together, I would say on a daily basis we eat at least one meal together, at the dinner table, with conversation involved. All of my friends say that their families have such different schedules that it is nearly impossible for them to eat at the same time. Ever since I could remember my father makes everyone in the house stop what they are doing to eat dinner together as a family for at least 30 minutes in the evening. This family culture that has been instilled in me derives from my mother’s background of being Ethiopian. In the Ethiopian culture, families spend a great deal of time with their families mainly because their homes were so small. This culture spending time together is not just something that my parents decided to instill in my brothers and I. It comes from a long line of ancestors from my mother’s side of the families that has continued through the years.

My immediate family is extremely close. I tell my mother father, and two older brothers everything that goes on in my life. But sometimes I feel like just those four individuals aren’t enough. A lot of people have had cousins, aunts and uncles to be a part of their lives. I haven’t had this luxury since I was about 10 years old. My family has had a series of feuds and as a result I’m not close to my extended family. My fondest childhood memories are those that I spent with my cousins, and aunts and uncles. A re-unification of my entire family is what I hope for in life. I want my entire family to be as close as my immediate family and I are. I hope one day we can set petty feuding aside and remember what important in life, family.