What Do YOU Believe?

Can you learn how to stand up for you beliefs?  This is a question I have asked myself for many years.  How do you find a fighting point?  Where do you get your information?  What turns beliefs into convictions?  Before you can stand up for what you believe in, you have to understand what you are fighting for.  There are so many people who listen to their contemporaries and formulate opinions or beliefs based on others' perceptions.  Why don't those people do the research themselves before they choose a position?  There are so many issues in our world that it would be impossible to know everything about all of them.  That is why we have to pick our battles.  Go to bat for the issues you care the most about, the ones you are willing to research.  Fight for what you believe and make sure you know what you are fighting for.  And that is what I believe!