Beliefs – to believe it or not?

Everyone believes in something – religion, an afterlife, love at first sight, fate, marriage, destiny, gods, ghosts, etc. For many, these beliefs make up a large part of their lives and their being. In fact, for some, their beliefs define them.

Basically belief is an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof.

Beliefs have a major effect on today’s society. Our life seems almost entirely based on institutions and beliefs like marriage, religion, and fate. With nearly the entire world taking part in some sort of belief system, how is it that someone like me believes in very few things out of these beliefs?

Have you ever wondered how are beliefs formed?

It all revolves around us, in the environment we are brought up in, with people we talk and share our thoughts and ideas out of them we perceive the ones that interests us.

Wait, I’ll make it easy for you.

It all starts with a wheel, a wheel called as wheel of belief,

* we have an idea that is brought up to us by socialising

* this idea is thought over more because we perceived it as it interests us

*we start making judgements because after all we are a social animal.

*this judgement helps in taking or not taking action on that idea

* if action is taken, there are results and if the results are in favour of us we tend to have a good mentality about that idea and we start making it our belief.

So, this is how the whole process works,But I believe if there is no real proof for the idea to be believed then it’s not real. And in this process sometimes people are blinded to see the truth and the difference between belief and truth when understood is knowledge.

I don’t really believe in gods, ghosts, magic, or any other non-tangible concept mostly – not because I do not want to, but simply because my mind cannot fathom it. To me, facts are critical. Yet, I would never say that those who choose to believe in faith-based concepts are wrong; rather, they simply do not think like me and are able to maintain faith without proof to back it up. In a way I envy them. I wish for one minute I could believe in something spectacular and paranormal, but here I am believing myself!