One Important Lesson in Life

So, I am sitting here wondering what one important lesson I have learned thus far in my life. There are so many lessons that have been brought upon me, and all of the lessons have impacted my life in one way or another. I could probably sit here for many hours without typing anything just to find that one lesson to write about. As of now, I can probably narrow them all down to about three lessons, and from those thee it will be hard to choose just one.

The one life lesson I would have to consider the most important may not be as important to you as it is to me. I realized that throughout my life from me being a little boy, to being the young man I am now, I have always been told the same thing but just in a different form.

This lesson is to always have faith.

Now you can consider faith to be defined in two distinct ways. The first, it could be defined as having the complete trust in someone or something. Secondly, it may be defined as having a strong belief in God or any religion based on spiritual apprehension. When I first said faith was an important life lesson, I was defining it as both definitions mentioned earlier.

Using faith as confidence.

As many of you may already know, playing sports and being active is a big part in my life. For the athletes out there you know how important it is to have faith no matter what sport you play.

I am going to use myself as an example. Obviously the main sport I have passion for is basketball, and since the first day I picked up a basketball I have always had faith. This past season I had to find as much faith as I possibly could. I had to do this because before the season had started we were receiving a vast amount of negative comments. Literally, everyday people were saying:

“I don’t think the boys will be any good this year. They have no players returning but one, they have no height to play against the other teams, and they’re not going to have players like Jalen, Reshaun, Torrian, or Bryson.”

Yeah, people said that or something similar. Although, I did not let that bother me much. I just built up faith within myself and for my teammates. This was a difficult task to do because you can’t just hand out faith like playing cards. Faith has to come from inside you.

But the faith was not enough for us to have a successful season. I am not saying not having enough faith is the reason we weren’t successful. I’m saying having faith helped the other players and I out a whole lot, especially for myself. If I had not had faith I probably would not have finished the season at all. This is what kept me going day by day from practices to games.

Using faith through spiritual apprehension.

Having a strong belief in God or any form of religion should be greatly valued. I have always had a strong belief in my Native American beliefs and also a strong belief in God. If I had no religion to follow who knows where I would be right now. Believing in my Native American heritage and believing in God helped my life A LOT! Having faith in the spiritual aspects of life opened many doors. Not only did it give me many opportunities, but it also taught me many lessons. So, you can say this is a lesson that opens up many other lessons. Also, having this faith helped me find out who I really am inside. I turned to religion whenever I needed it most. Whenever I was down in the dumps my faith in my religions brought light back to me.

Al in all, having faith is an important lesson for me. I need not say anything more because we all have our own opinions on what “faith” really is.