The story of an atheist

14/03/2022 Nilson Lattari

He was an atheist because he didn’t believe in a way to fix the problems around the world. Names like universal fraternity, community welfare, and even love your neighbour haven’t made sense to him. And he has said these things everywhere. Sometimes he went to the streets during the winter nights to donate clothes to homeless people who were suffering. He got out coats for others, or found time to help the community, preparing meals for poor people. Even though he has continued thinking the same, because he didn’t trust anyone. If his group of friends decided to pray together, he walked away from them.
He went outdoors to walk down the streets and felt sadness seeing lost dogs walking aimlessly. He wondered if he had space at home for someone else, and imagined his dogs receiving the new friend.
He celebrated people, saying that God would send him to hell, and he answered that it would be good news because he wouldn’t like to live with people who didn’t agree with him.
Anyway, he didn’t like to comment about God because if he criticized the Lord about these problems, he would agree with His existence.
Tears bloomed from his eyes, silently, when he found black people, poor people or abandoned children being kept away from places by security guards and officers. Once he decided to live with these people to help them. And he has never accepted thanks in the name of God because he was doing this, moved by something inside him that he didn’t know.
He told people that if God exists, he could avoid injustices all over the world. In his opinion, only personal actions could change the world. Then he did these actions to show others, with his example, that these things are possible.
He got satisfied when he saw himself in the mirror, a hidden smile on his face about some action that had benefited someone. It was his moment of happiness, and he felt well despite others, even though there wasn’t anybody close to him. For others, he continued being an incorrigible atheist, but he did his best. For others, the existence of unhappiness was not material goods. For him, unhappiness was not helping more.
He helped people not to change the world, because the world goes on and doesn’t care about people’s misery. In short, no one could make a difference. People said that those who don’t believe in God wouldn’t have good intentions for others.
His life went on, and he continued following his steps, doing what his heart wished. In God, he didn’t believe, even though God was looking forward to him, because He believed in him.