This girl, let’s call her Helen, is the most difficult person to talk to about ANYTHING. Especially if it goes against anything she believes. Now Helen is a very, very, very conservative religious girl. She has been since I met her way back in second grade. She’s very nice, always thinks of others, and is a very talented musician but, she is very….Stubborn. Especially about her religion and how she has been brought up.

Now, I commend her for being able to stick to something like that with such conviction but….She leaves no room for anyone else to express what they feel or think without automatically being very, very wrong. Her arguments, in my opinion, are outdated, sometimes very illogical, and she shuts her ears, eyes, and mind to anything other than what she knows. And honestly, it kills me sometimes. I’ve tried discussing many different topics with her many different times but it usually ends in me wanting to bash my head in on the sharp corner of my kitchen counter.

One of Helen’s favorite arguments is that as long as she stands up for what she believes in (even if it counteracts everything I learned in Sunday school and is hateful to others) then it’s okay. Hateful words, statements, attitudes, and mentalities are STILL hateful, even if you add a religious hash tag to make it “Okay” in your mind.