The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I felt better one day and worse the next, it was unchanged. It chose no side. It gave the girl next to me in the hospital pneumonia; it also gave her white blood cells that would resist the infection. And the atoms in those cells, and the nuclei in those atoms, the same bits of carbon that were being spun into new planets in some corner of space without a name. My insignificance had become unspeakably beautiful to me. That unified force was a god too massive, too inhuman, to resist with the atheism in which I had been brought up. I became a zealot without a religion. .G. Willow Wilson
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The idea of god has many different interpretations, but the one that resonates with me the most is the idea of the unified force. When you are in a state of utter helplessness, when there is nothing you can do to make your situation better, it seems like the only logical conclusion would be to believe in a supreme being. You know that there is a force out there somewhere that is in control and it's up to them to take care of everything. A lot of people have faith in a higher power, even though they might not call it a higher being.
Some think it's their faith in science that gives them something to believe in. In this case, Nelson Mandela was the victim of apartheid and was imprisoned for 27 years. In his case, he was stripped of his freedom and separated from his loved ones just because he had been born into the wrong race.
He endured 27 years of being imprisoned for being who he was, all because he had been born a black man. He had no control over his circumstances and yet despite his circumstances, he did not lose faith in who he was and still refused to be broken by what others said about him. Instead, he fought to live and thrived through all these years knowing deep down that the only thing that could keep him going was himself.
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