Doubt Is Healthy
I’ve been living with a lot of doubt over the last few months. It is something I generally keep to myself. I don’t think it is always 100% necessary to share my doubts with everyone so I wouldn’t be surprised if none of my friends even realized.
I did talk about it with someone I trust though. They assured me that I am human, and humans tend to doubt. I think it is part of our general makeup. I also think that doubting shows that you are thinking deeply. If someone was completely dead set on their actions and beliefs for their entire life, I’d almost believe that they are lying to themselves sometimes. Doubt is real and we all feel it at some points.
Doubt can be a good thing and it can be a bad thing. I think it is what we do with our doubt that really makes the difference. I want to use my doubt to assure myself in what is true and what is right in my eyes. I want it to allow myself to ask me questions that scoffers and skeptics would ask, and I want to be able to find answers to those questions that I could stand by.
So doubt when you feel that you need to. But don’t always look to others for answers. Doubt is best taken up with God and with yourself. Look within for the answers, because no one understands you better than you.
Don’t tell anyone that I doubt. If anyone asks, tell them I am too overconfident and too arrogant in my beliefs to ever doubt myself. I like to keep up that persona…
