Diminished faith
[A bit controversial, but don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, I'm going to get a butt load of problems down the line]
For as long as the family could remember, they always have faith in their creator. They always prayed and prayer for fortune and they came. However, the event changed their world views forever.
Their son was a failing graduate. He has low marks in his school. However, instead of helping him with school and try to be more comforting, the parents instead told the boy that he have no faith in god and that's why he failed. Eventually, the constant failure in school and the bickering talks at home, drove the young man to strike out on his own. As religious zealots, the family prayed for their son's survival. They wanted to find and bring back the boy.
Days went by as the police that they have tasked to find the missing boy, weren't able to find him. Eventually, this turns in for the worst with the school thinking of expelling the boy for his absence in school. That's when they pushed hard. They prayed for days and weeks, yet no luck.
Eventually, as they are walking by, they've found him, but he wasn't the same. They saw the boys was traumatized, broken, bruised and malnourished. The family was ecstatic that they have found the boy, because of their faith in God. They rushed him to the hospital for a check up and anything that will help the boy. But the parents missed one key detail.
Afterwards, the siblings showed the parents a note. It read:
"If the ####### family gets this letter, I hate you all.
You said I never have faith in God, but I do! I never have a problem with God. You don't truly know what true pain and suffering feel like! Do you? Or you are too arrogant with our "God". Yes, and it is true!
When I left home, I finally feel free. But when I came out, I felt irritated by the religion I was in. I make the best as I can and prayed. Yes, I prayed. I did everything, but the suffering just got worse and worse over time. No one wanted to help a "hobo" like me. I'm not even sure anyone can help me. I prayed to God that I'll be back with you all. But no. No one helped me.
Eventually, I have to feed off the scraps from the streets and garbage can, my faith has diminished. I stopped believing in my religion. No one can help me. And now I lie, waiting to die.
Your disgraced son,
#####"
Just reading the letter alone was enough to shatter the hearts of the family. They were so obsessed with the religion, they didn't have time for their own. The arrogance that were once in them, have now been diminished. They no see the error in their ways.
It is more heartbreaking when the doctor told them, "Unfortunately, your son have suffered severe trauma, malnourishment and many injuries; it would mean that he'll be staying in the hospital in the next couple of weeks. However, it won't be a guarantee that your son might survive the incoming weeks". After some refusal to leave, they did so, leaving the suffering in the hospital.
Weeks passes by, they came to check on the boy, but he didn't listen. He said that he never want to see their faces anymore. The family tried their best, yet every prayers and effort that they have done, only incentives him to want to die in their arms.
Upon recovery, the boy have decided his new fate: getting himself adopted. It may have been a hard time for all, but the boy didn't care. A new family took the boy in as their own, helping the boy to cope with his suffering and eventually he became one of them.
Back at the old family, they were devastated. The parents fear that their children may one day ended up like their boy. So they make them do as much work and reward them as possible. However, the children refuses, saying that this what drive their brother to run. Heartbroken and angry at themselves, the parents try any measure of coping techniques as they could. No matter who or what, they always struggle to get what they wanted: a happy religious family.
Some, till all, read the note once more, then soon came to realize that their religion is what's tearing the family apart. Now, they have no hope in their God and simply try their best to live under the new circumstances and with the boy to never be with them ever again.
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