So, I'll start since I made this thread.
My name is Chris, if you did not know. I've grown up in the church, and I'd like to share some of my experiences throughout my life for you guys, and possibly hear yours in return.
As a young child I was rather devious. I was really athletic, and was sort of popular. This was when I was really young, like elementary school. This was the case, until I started talking to my friends about church.
Slowly I started losing my friends, idk if this is because I started speaking openly about church or if it was because I got boring? But a lot of my friends were not seen as my friends, and I was picked on by my neighbors(Until I beat them up, then we were cool). Also, I did have a few friends who stuck it out with me, and even went to the fun church events with me but that was short lived throughout middle school.
Middle school years were awkward as you might say. I was seen as naive, especially when it came to girls and ect. Because of this I always got flustered with them and had no idea to react when they made advances on me(I guess some of them thought I was good lookin or w.e) and other such things.
Enough about that though, lets go to high school.
So I'm decently smart, the only grade I've gotton below a B on a report card was a D once in my jr year, somtimes life happens eh lol, and I don't like math. So lets just say I'm smart, and I achieved all of this without doing much homework so I always scored well on tests and in class activities and such.
High school was pretty good, I had friends, especially my friends from church who i also knew and hung out with in highschool. I was in band and on the track team and ect. Fun times.
Now college is where things turned interesting, or a bit worse for my Christianity streak. The funny party is that I started out in a Christian college called Cornerstone Uni. This school forces you to attend chapel events which made me hate going to church/events. Why the hell should I be forced to worship God? This made me fall out've socializing in this area. Though I did attend a Bible study group where we went over a book for a semester, that was a enjoyable get together once a week.
This school was full of all sorts of different people. Jocks, Nerds, and Hipsters were the most prevalent and I felt like I fit into each of the categories. I liked music like the hipsters, I played ulti frisbee and soccer with the jocks, and i played plenty of video games as well. My grades were... Meh . Lets say I've had grades from A's all the way to E's depending on how much I attended the class =P.
I started out as a Environmental Bio major but.... I didn't really like it. I took bio, chem, botany.... Along with a music minor, I was in a wind symphony and a pep band for basketball games(never again, was so hard to do hw and practice for this and go to the games for several hours 2-3 times week).
I didn't know what I wanted to do. For the first year I felt like nothing was going right, and just went through the motions.
Here comes along the second year. Not able to get lodging with the people I wanted to( they all wanted to lodge with different people despite that we had it planned, those betrayers!
) I ended up in an apartment with people I semi-knew, and we generally got along well. First semester went along pretty well, I got along with my roommate and the other two of my apartment mates, though they were too loud at night sometimes
and life was pretty fun.
Second semester, man this sucked. My roommate ended up dropping out cuz he couldn't afford the private college life anymore and went to work with his dad and go to a cheaper college(I probably should have done that at this point as well.)
I got some guy who transfered in as my roommate. He wasn't there half the time and usually spent the night over his girlfriends, probably screwing her for all I know(he insinuated this a bit but he was proper about it). He was a nice guy, and we often had talks after lights out about what we aspired to do, or what we didn't even know what to do. At this point I was no longer a Bio major, and decided to try out a few different classes. Ahahaha. This turned out pretty badly, I slacked off this whole semester not knowing what to do with my life. Played games, watched anime, played sports w.e there were people doing that and hung out with friends(somtimes). I also spent hours a week practicing for pep and wind symphony cuz I might as well get better at the trumpet.
After this my parents weren't happy with my grades as previous reports obviously showed that I was smart, and that I only did bad in some classes and got As and Bs in others. So I decided I'd transfer out. Now while I was away at college there was one thing I got REALLY good at, and that was writing papers, or just writing in general(hopefully you don't put these expectations on this testimony
). So I decided that I'll major in some sort of English now, but what? So I decided and went with that and the first semester I got a 2.85 GPA, which isn't great but it is okay. During this semseter I decided that i would like to teach english in high school. So my major is now secondary education in english. This semester I work part time and I am only taking three classes. In two of the classes I'm going to get As, and the other will be a C+ or a B depending on how well I write this upcoming paper and do on the final.(I hate things like history, they are boring and hard to pay attention in).
So now that my life is on track.... I often don't go to church, because I've been working Sundays or Saturday nights so I've been too tired or too busy to go, and I feel kinda drowsy when it comes to actually going to it. I've taken new testament and old testament classes at my old college as they were required, so a normal church just doesn't cut it for me and the music there isn't great as i am a better musician than most of the people that sing there.
I am at a loss..... Spiritually I guess. I am still a Christian and I'd say i think of God and all that comes with it several times a day but that obviously isn't enough to make me grow. Hopefully I can get past this stagnant part of my life.
You guys are next!
