"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

^ This is why lessons are really interesting.
Aside from observing the teachers and their teaching styles, you get to learn philosophical stuffs.
Currently we are discussing Happiness and what constitutes to it during English lessons, and that is a really great subject to delve deeper into.
English literature allows you to think about quotes like these,
And circle time in class makes it possible to listen to the different points of views on the exact same thing.

Someone thought of the seven ages as different stages in life, while others thought that the stage refers to people who put on different masks in front of different people. Someone else thought of the exits and entrances as the time in the limelight being over, and the 'players' going offstage to prepare for the spotlight again.

Life is a game after all, and we are all merely players in it.
Some get to shine on stage, while others are busy playing their individual games, and don't ever get to shine on stage.

Perhaps, this 'stage' is a platform for one big performance.
Perhaps, all of these is one big devised performance, and when players go on stage and 'improvise', they are in fact just playing accordingly to the script that was written beforehand.
Perhaps, while we think of it as us playing a chess game with our own wills, we are in fact just the chess pieces on the board, moved by some existence unbeknownst to us.

Perhaps, this existence could be a god. Perhaps, it isn't.

We will never know.
Although, it is possible that the idea of 'gods' was conjured up just so there can be a figure of perfection and protection, that humans can believe in in order to ensure order, or in some way, justice.
Perhaps, it was so that humans could worship something of the unknown, and place trust in it for the way they lead their lives.

Again, we will never know.

Religion is an interesting thing, but it is important to be careful not to let it govern your life, for that would be a set of rules that, of course can never be justified to be true or right, but can and will be used in order to manipulate people.
Religion itself can be an innocent thing that can be true or false.
However, religion can be used as an extremely powerful tool to brainwash people and drive them to perform certain acts, for example, harming others---and still make them feel that it's justified for them to do so.
Bottom line is, everyone has their own religion (or not for freethinkers), and while it's perfectly fine to believe in your own religion, it is also of utmost importance that you think about the preachings and ideas presented to you by your religion.
Before trusting in it blindly, think about whether or not it is right.
For example, is homosexuality really a sin?
Is it a sin to love someone you love, especially since one almost always has no choice over choosing who to love?
Why do you condemn a concept that's so simple and common---just because of how it's between two of the same gender--- and just because religion tells you so?

Faith is good.
Loyalty is good.
However, blind faith will result in close mindedness, and that isn't very good, is it?

There's no need to hate on a certain religion for its preachings, or for cases publicized about how that  religion has caused them to hurt others; because personally, I feel that it's not the religion's fault.
Religion was written by humans, after all.
The believers are humans, too.
It is these humans that don't evaluate things before blindly believing in it, and it is these humans that use religion to manipulate other believers into doing things they wouldn't have done otherwise in a clear state of mind.
Not all are victims, but not all are antagonists either.
It isn't entirely the religion's fault. If anything, it's the humans'.
Through assuming that a certain religion breeds terrorists, or homophobic people, or brainwashed followers, you are stereotyping. You are not thinking in depth about the reasons for these things.
You are expressing anger, perhaps from your own heart, but perhaps too because it seems right to do so.
You have hate, perhaps from your own loss, but perhaps too because you have concluded without true knowledge of the subject.

That is not right.
And if you have managed to read till here without exploding into fits of anger or closing your mind, I salute you.
I salute you because you are flexible enough to not let your mind shut down from things you cannot agree with for the time being.

And that is great.
That is really, really great.