Birthday month entry: March 6th

Don't let anyone take away your confidence in who you are and your God-given gifts, even yourself. I've heard from many people who are my age about being discouraged about taking the jobs they want because their parents tell them "it's not a college job" or "it won't make them enough to move up in the world". I've even heard from people that have attempted suicide because they felt discouraged and disowned by their parents because their natural abilities didn't meet their family's expectations. I shouldn't have to hear that a person's family is the reason why they wanted to kill themself. Instead, I should be hearing about how families are encouraging their children to follow God's Will for them despite what the world says. This is one of the many tragedies of this secular society where people have to deny themselves not for holiness, but for worldly rewards and pleasures that are temporary and are gone faster than the blowing of the wind.