My Awakenings!!

It never stuck me before but I'd been using it all this while without an iota of doubt.

It all happened when I'd planned to pursue part time Masters in Management from one of
the reputed management institutions, hence, as part of the initial procedure I was
filling out my application form.

Wanting to get into that Management institution had been the only conscious decision I'd
made in my life till now. Hence, like never before, I was taking everything seriously.

I was already cautioned by some of my friends that the application form would be my
first impression in front of the management, hence I should put in a lot of thinking and
logic behind every answer. All these suggestions and advice had already formed a perception in my mind about approaching the application form.

Hence while embarking on my journey of filling the application form, instead of starting with
the trivial questions like name, age, religion etc, I started with the difficult questions like the essays and personal/experience questions. It took me nearly 4 hours to answer all those questions satisfactorily (by this time my mind had already got into the inquisitive framework), and once I was done with that, I moved on to answer those default trivial questions.

However unlike always,this time my mind was not programmed to just answer the question.
An intrinsic thought/realization accompanied every question. And when I reached the question where the institution wanted to know about my religion, two questions stuck my mind for the first time:

1) Why should be someone else concerned about my religion?

2) What is my religion?

After a little retrospection, I was able to confront the first question as a constitutional blunder, however the second question really startled me.

All this while I have been carrying an inherited religion & never even once did I think if I'm really following any religion.Furthermore to my adversity, I did not even know what religion meant.

After speaking about my latest awakening & dilemma to some of my friends I came to know that I wasn't alone in the journey of ignorance, there were many who (apart from their small variations) were just like me. And it won't be false for me to say that more then 95% of the people who inhibited my world were religiously religionless.

Being enlightened with this reassuring feeling that I'm not alone, another important question appeared in my mind,
Do I need a religion?

Although this question can be debated boundlessly from a general point of view, however if I were to argue keeping the context of the matter (i.e. me) in mind, I think I don't need a religion as of now.

Now that I'm able to see things from this angle, I think the absence of religion has made me the kind of good and indestructive person that I am. Being religionless has allowed me to look at people from an unbiased vision and that inturn has resulted in enduring genuine relationships with my friends. I never got involved in a riot or broke peoples houses (which took them a generation to build) in the name of religion. There are no orphan children crying on the streets because I killed their parents in the name of religion. And importantly, I never hated someone without getting to know them.

If there is a place called Heaven, then I think without doubt I will get a place in there.

Hence for the sake of humanity I chose not to answer that question and for the sake of happiness (which is the aim of religion), I choose not to be enclosed within the compartment of religion. I say it out loud I say it proud, I'm Religionless!!!