My Family and Religion

Let my say a few words on my family and its religious background here. I am the eldest in the family of two; there is a sister younger to me. She has completed a National Diploma in Teaching Eastern Music & Dance still unemployed; she is of 26 years of age. My father who worked as a clerk in a plantation office is now retired and who is sick and bed –ridden. My mother is a Principal in a Government school.


On my family religious background, it’s rather complex or a complicated one. To start with my Grandfather who is a Hindu by birth went on to become a Buddhist Clergy (Monk) in his middle ages and remained so until his death. My Father is a believer of Hindu religion and the only Christian link in our family is by the way of our Mother. She and her family members are Christians by which I happened to learn about Jesus Christ. But to no avail my only religious education is from the school which I studied that too because it is being a Christian school and more of that I have to answer a Religion exam paper to complete my studies which made me to learn Christianity.


As you would understand that being raised up in a complex and complicated religious back drop my only knowledge on Jesus is that I got it from the books, magazines, films, Bible and by word of mouth. Which, I think is a like a grain of sand in a palm.


Our family is not a well-to –do family, it is Middle –class family to the social standards of Sri Lankan society, from the plantation sector, where we are able to cope with the daily plunging economic status and the raising cost-of –living amount of the country. With the sickness of my father who needs an attendant and sister who is unemployed it is a hard battle to co-op with the raising cost of living. Which adversely affect my future?