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this is an essay that I wrote for my writer’s craft class

please note that it is NOT intended to be serious

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Belief

Belief is like a single-edged sword. More accurately, it is like a sharpened arrow, but only when improperly placed. To be quite, entirely truthful (which, I admit, I haven’t been up ‘til now), belief is an elixir. Whatever ails you can be miraculously cured by the intravenous of faith.

But it is personal belief, the belief in you, that is the real psychological morphine. Without self-esteem, self-worth, self-confidence, and a variety of other “self-” commencing, positive words, you could find yourself in as bad a state as the Hunchback of Notre Dame (and, if you haven’t read the book or seen the Disney movie, that’s a pretty bad state. He was isolated, lied to and just generally abused. Not the best way to live).

There’s a strange force at work in most lives, especially those who have the great horror — I mean honour — of attending highschool. It comes in many shapes and forms usually smirking and holding a knife in easy view. This force is called ‘negativity’. Belief is a shield, preventing negativity from seeping in and stealing everything you have. With enough power, the shield can even start turning negativity in on itself, thus making it positivity (anyone who’s ever multiplied two negative numbers in math knows what I’m talking about).

That is the true power of belief (and this time, I’m being serious). It can make even the most negative people positive with just one beam (though in reality, there are no beams of belief. I’m just using that metaphor to make the concept easier to understand. Wouldn’t it be neat if there were? It would be an epic battle, positivity versus negativity, like a scene from Star Wars). Any person infected with the disease of self-esteem will realize that it is, in fact, a type of antibody that can cure absolutely and form of psychosomatic ‘illness’ imaginable (once again, I’m using figurative language to describe things. That last bit might have been a bit obscure, but you should understand). Belief is the medicine of the mind (or something like it).