My World, My Outlook

My World, My Outlook

At some point, everyone develops a worldview, which is a basic set of beliefs of overall principles, and personal answers to questions of genuine significance to human life. Having a worldview is important for an individual because it allows one to make sense of what is perceived around them. This connects a person to the world and promotes collaboration towards common goals. Without worldviews, culture as it is now would fail to exist, ethnicities would not be of any importance, and religions would not have been created. It could be argued that the human race, without common worldviews, could not form partnerships, teams, and even countries. Therefore a worldview is fundamentally and innately apart of the human race by design. For me, during the course of my life, I have shaped and formed an evolving worldview through the reality I have perceived, the human nature that has surrounded me, and values I have formed.

Life as I have experienced it thus far has often been chaotic, which has led to an external pursuit of logic and science. My mother was bipolar and I was subjected to many different odd behaviors, especially during her manic phases. As a young child, my mother would wake my two sisters and me up in the middle of the night proclaiming she had to save us from the devil. She would cut herself on her hand and then smear crosses with her blood onto our foreheads. Therefore, my early introduction to religion, and Catholicism in particular, was very convoluted. Later in life I found churches were unable to provide an explanation for my reality. Members of the Catholic Church took the stance that my mother was possessed by demonic forces and convinced her to decline medical treatment. Subsequently, her mental health deteriorated. As I got older and I started to understand scientific research, I deduced that my mother was bipolar and that medical treatment would have regulated the disease. Along the same lines, the Big Bang theory...