Astrology Reflection

I grew up in a family which is between non-religion and religion. Why do I say that is that my father doesn 't believe in any religions at all while my mother believes in Buddhism. When I was a little girl, my mother liked to take me to various temper and asked me to knelt and kowtow to those image of Buddha or Bodhisattvas. At that time, I haven 't known anything about what is religion yet. Since my mother asked me to do that, I just did. As time passing, it becomes a habit to me. Every time I go to a temper, I just knelt and kowtow consciously. And after that, my mother would always praise me and give me some candies. I felt good about that even though I didn 't understand the reason.

Something changes when I was seven years old. It 's during

It 's mostly based on two small things. The first is when I am preparing for the exams of applying high school, I get in touch with something about astrology unconsciously. Astrology is not a religion but it also has a large impact on me about my attitude toward religion. An astrologer predicts something about my future before I took the exams. She said I will reach whatever goals I have on June 19. I didn 't tell her anything before she said that. However, the June 19th is the day that we need to fill up what high school we want to apply. After finished the exams on June 15 to 18, it 's the day for applying. Since I didn 't feel well about that exam, I chose not to believe in the astrologer and didn 't apply for the best high school which is my goal. However, when the grades came out, I was so shocked that I did reach the required score of the best high school. That 's almost impossible for me because I never had such good scores! It 's my first time for me to have a quick moment which believes there has something powerful out of nature. It controls everything and guides our

In the past, I only paid attention on the news that Muslims attack other people and damage places. But after this event, I just came up the history of Islam. Before Islam appears, the whole Arab area is in a mess. The social crisis and the invade from other countries make Arabs lost their directions. At that time, Islam becomes more and more popular. It perfectly meet the needs of both economics and politics. It helps Arab became a whole country again. It also became the most powerful guidance for those confusing Arabs at that moment. From this angle, Islam is not force at all but a way to get away from force. Every religion has its own reason to exist on the earth and we just can 't judge them from just one angle. We should also show respects to every religion and