I was kind of skeptical about registering or even posting anything on this site but after a long struggle of going back and forth and after talking to a friend telling me that it would be good for me I decide to do it.
I grew up in a Jehovah Witness house hold. It all was great a had a wonderful childhood but everything went down hill when I started to have my own opinion on things. As I headed to my teenage years I felt more like an outcast. My parents started to have problems with the way a dressed, the music I listened to, the friends I had and the people I wanted to date. One of the things that really bothered me was not being able to have friend that were not witnesses but any how that went on for a couple of years.
One day I was on this website and through music I found the person that would practically changed my life. I started talking to this guy under the weirdest of circumstances but for some reason I wanted to talk to him( looking back on thing I understand why). As the witness that I was at the time I wanted to preach to him because he was a really nice person and he seemed interested in bible topics (at that time I had no idea what I was getting myself into). So time when on and we used have these long conversation about all kind of things and every single time that we went into bible topics he came to me with so much information that I was left winded because I didn’t know how to counter what he was saying. For a time I was in denial of what I was learning from him. So I did research about everything that he was showing me because I thought that their had to be an explanation to what he was saying . The things I found were shocking and disappointing at the same time. This continued for sometime time and he still continued to showed me things that I don’t think I would have ever learned on my own. I would still be spiritually blinded if it wasn’t for this person. I am so grateful that God somehow but him in my life.
After learning all of this I couldn’t be a JW anymore so I gave a letter to one of the elders telling him my situation and telling them I was leaving the organization not because I did any bad just because I wanted to leave. When I did that my life turn around completely. I was left with no friends my family was not speaking to me and I entered a very deep depression because of this. I have been like this for a few months now. I want to know how is life after leaving the organization???
How have all of you surpass all of this?