Elie Wiesel once wrote:
'In the beginning there was faith--which is childish; trust--which is vain; and illusion--which is dangerous.'
He couldn't have been more right. When we are young we have complete faith in the world around us and the goodness of others, and as we grow we learn that the world is not quite as innocent as we first assumed. We place trust in those that we don't fully know, we are vain in our willingness. We live surrounded by an illusion that everything is right in the world, and it's a dangerous notion. We assume that the first thing we see in someone is the truth, we have faith that they are safe, we trust that they are honest, and in the end we are faced with nothing but a hollow illusion. A well practiced trick that can be missed by the most observant of people.
He also wrote:
'I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. With out love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger.'
There is a point in every one's life where they lose faith and have to search for it. Their trust in a higher power is diminished and they are lost, and sometimes they will find renewed strength in the acceptance of divinity, and sometimes they find it within themselves. And at that moment when we find if we are a strong as our self, or whether we need a voice to guide us. That is the moment we become strangers, that is the moment we become ourselves.
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