"Never stop believing!"

"Have need to have faith!"

"You have to give 100% of yourself!"

"You will get there, despite the many rejections that are sent your way."

Dozens of phrases are expressed on a daily to create a community that has faith in themselves and in a greater being. Assuming that people don’t already have a firm belief in something greater. I was one of those loyal believers of having faith in my dreams and that God would allow me to achieve those goals. Especially as a child.

A few came true or in a low percentage because life modified it to fit my life as it was intended to be. At least that is what I believed.

I knew God loved me enough to create a happy ending.

Eventually, my dreams had a wall blocking their entrance to my life. A wall that seemed to randomly grow from the ground that allowed my life goals and the routine pathway to continue. This wall seemed to not favor anything that the American society was against - immigrants, people of color, poverty, Mexicans, non-heterosexuals, etc.

A barrier that had allowed entrance to dreams due to my US citizenship, my lighter skin tone, and my male body. A reality that I have seen so many people live throughout my entire lifetime. The news has portrayed devoted believers die in their impoverishment.

Why are most of the people in the world poor? Why is this poor population a person of color? Why do their hopes and dreams seem less and less of a reality each day? Why does their education not mean anything anywhere else besides their home country? Even then jobs are becoming more and more scarce.

They are the people with faith.

Wasn’t faith supposed to grant them the world?

Everything seems so corrupt.

Faith has failed most of the world. Corruption appears to have no end. Death meets people every morning to transcend their torture to a life we may not know truly exist after life on earth.

If it does not exist, then life in pain was never worth living.