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Personal Narrative: Being Ridiculed For My Religion

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Being ridiculed for my religion was probably one of the most depressing and miserable parts of my life that I have ever experienced. Just all the other sixth graders laughing at me, for not joining in their "world religion ' ' made me feel so angry that I felt the need to cry. All I ever hear that whole school year, was "here comes the Jehovah Witness" and "Don 't open the door, it 's the Jehovah Witness." So public school was starting to feel like a place that was not best suited for me. So what I did was I sucked in my gut and pretended to be the bravest man I could pretend to be. When things started to seem better, the teacher had assigned a group project, and the worst part of it all was the fact every single person in our four person …show more content…

Religion in my opinion, should be practiced freely and should not be judged just because it is different from Christianity. In fact, this extravagant country was built on the belief of God 's Almighty Glory, and also it is stated in our constitution. The talk of religion never arose from our group, except when in time someone said that they were going to Wisconsin in a week for Christmas. After saying that statement, he went around the whole group and asked how each one of us were going to spend celebrating our Christmas break. Then came my turn. So being a Jehovah Witness, I responded by saying that I do not celebrate Christmas, because Christ was not born in December and other false beliefs. One of my peers seemed like he did not care, but the other two were shocked beyond belief. They kept asking "why is the reason you do not participate in Holidays?", and being a reasonable person I answered every question respectively, and told them the reason to each of my religion 's belief. My group did throw a couple of disbelief comments, but I promptly answered their questions. Further and further, we went into the talk of my religious practices, and the more they seemed more and more interested. In fact, one student was so interested that he even asked to join me when I attended a Jehovah Witness Assembly. Just the thought of people actually accepting my religion felt good. I was very glad that my teacher had assigned me with this very understanding

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