Just Two Words

Do you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband?
The phrase is like a sudden shock throughout my body.
I do?
I don't?
Ding dong ding dong
The church bells build up the pressure

Waiting, waiting for the answer he hopes
Waiting for me to say
I do
But what does my heart say?

I love this man
And he loves me
He will soon put this ring on my finger
Excepting and confirming our feelings towards one another

Who would have ever thought
The answer to the hardest decision in my life
could be as simple as two words.
Two simple words that could change my life forever

I prepare myself to let out my final answer
Fear overwhelms me for a moment
The fear soon turns to a heart warming feeling
A burst of happiness
A burst of excitement
A burst of curiousness

My future is unfolding at this very moment
Of course I want to marry this man
Spend the rest of my life with him
I love him
And he loves me

I do is just two words
Two words that may change my life forever
Two words that mean the world
With that being said,
I do

Religious Beliefs

The novel, Life of Pi, starts off with an old man that states, "I have a story that will make you believe in God." Two closely linked ideas in the novel are storytelling and religious belief. Pi has three religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. Each comes with its own tales, fables that are used to spread the teachings of beliefs of that faith. Pi enjoys the richness of these stories, but also gets the sense that each story might be aspects of a greater story about love, coming from Father Martin who assured that Pi was true of Christianity.

Life of Pi also has links to stories and religious beliefs because Pi declares that both require faith on other human beings as well. Surprisingly, Pi admires atheists, for him being such a religious young man. Pi is showing that you should be believing in something no matter what it is. It is better to have faith in something than nothing at all, and that something is what gives life a purpose. Although religion can be a taboo to most people, that doesn’t mean you can't have your different beliefs than others. Pi can appreciate the atheists and their ability to believe in the absence of God without knowing about the truth of absence. To Pi, people that can't make a leap of faith in any direction are like people who can't appreciate the truth inside a fictional story.