I have always been concerned about considering how faith affects my friends and classmates.

Growing up in a strict catholic school I have always regarded faith as one of the key factors in

living. Therefore, we need to have faith and this faith should not be for granted.

College community is a diversity of many things: Clash of attitudes, beliefs, and many more. It

was the time when I realize that there was more to those four walls than meets the eye.

Especially about faith, I was surprised to know much about different people with different faith.

It was my first seeing strict Muslim traditions executed by students my age. For me, college was

a diversity of faith and belief that only a few would realize it is full of colours.Being raised a

Catholic, I can say that I always try to uphold the religion as much as possible, from many kinds

of arguments. I also thought lacking he/she must believe and enter one of the religions is a

missed chance to have guide with regards to life. Having faith must mean entering in any of the

religions preset to be able to further acknowledge our faith. At first, I was biased towards the fact

that some of the brightest students are not Catholic-or engaged in any religious congregations. I

thought, they miss the chance having to realize the beauty and salvation of God, and having to

believe in anything rather than God is a very weak effort.

One night, the time of a reporting from our Church and Sacrament class, we were reporting about

the medieval religious insights. I asked the audience- my classmates, if they ever knew of

plenary indulgence-no one knew. I was shocked. We were a non-block section and students 1st

year to 4th year was enrolled in that subject; catholic, Muslim-still, even the slightest idea of

plenary indulgence did not tickle their minds. I was disappointed, I said to the class, “Haven’t

you noticed? That maybe, not knowing plenary indulgence is only a start of knowing the bigger-

and perhaps the worse truth of growing apathy of this generation?” I mean, plenary indulgence,

have long been debated, I remember when I was in high school, I was discussing it with my

classmates, whom, in return, were more concerned about looking good rather than general

concerns. I thought deep, at first, and I asked forgiveness to God, for having to fail in informing

the students of the faith, and perhaps the deeper meaning of it with regards to our generation

nowadays. Perhaps, now, I can say, faith consists half of a person’s life. Looking beyond it one

can see a maze, a maze which will later arrange itself sowing the path, a path to the final

fulfilment and destiny of the person one person, like me, could not easily turn masses of people

into realizing their faith but I believe keeping this same attitude about faith can go places.