u/Afraid_Dragonfly7493

How do I deal with your perception of reality changing?

How do I cope with the fact that I’m slowly starting to longer believe in everything I used to believe in? ( religion, identity, sense of reality, spirituality, relationships, social political question etc) it can feel less like “growth” and more like psychological tectonic plates moving underneath me.
I actually think it’s because I grew up in a kinda environment where people shared the same beliefs, culture, norms, religion etc, I never imagined the opposite or really had an opportunity to contradicting views or systems. All over sudden I’m in a world outside that bubble. Then I encounter a wider world and realise people believe completely opposite things,people live meaningful lives under different systems , morality/spirituality/religion aren’t as unanimous as I assumed,
and my old worldview is suddenly *one perspective among many*. I’m genuinely loosing sense of community because everything and everyone that I felt relative to I no longer do. Like I sought of know what to believe but don’t know how to when I feel distant and foreign to my close ones and my community. It also feels like living in a facade where your family and people I grew up with and call your community don’t really know me.

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u/Afraid_Dragonfly7493 — 3 days ago

Advise

I signed up for a youth church camp this summer but idk if I should cancel it or just go. I know very well it’s gonna be teachings about ideas I no longer believe in. I’ve been deconstructing my religion and I mostly signed up for the camp because I genuinely have nothing to do this summer outside of work and camp is often fun cause you’re around your peers and everything. Being raised in a Christian community, your life, free time, hobbies, sense of belonging and community is basically based around church and church peers. Deconstructing is the worst feeling cause u loose all that and also your sense of perception of reality regarding almost everything. ( a pastors kid in an African household by the way)

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u/Afraid_Dragonfly7493 — 4 days ago