Surely you’d like to find the love of your life, someone you
can see yourself spending the rest of your life with. And when you do find that
person, you’d probably try your best to overcome the obstacles that might be
ahead of you. Maybe that obstacle can be in the form of the family not
approving of your significant other. Or maybe it’s distance – you found someone
on the Internet. Or maybe it’s financial – you have the love but find it hard
to maintain the relationship. Problems like that can be easily overcome as long
as you have the desire to get past them.
What if the problem is in the form of religion? As in, you
love this guy/girl, you want to marry him/her, but s/he won’t, because the both
of you are of different faiths. The only way is to convert to his/her religion.
Would you?
In Tanzania, you cannot marry a Muslim without being a
Muslim yourself. So if you aren’t a Muslim to begin with, you have to convert
in order to marry your significant other. And vice versa you can’t marry a Christian
if you are not a Christian. Many people have gone through this path though
there is an easiest method of joining up through government approval.
But what if you don’t believe in the faith of your
significant other’s? Would you convert in order to be with the person you love?
Or is your faith more important than a potential life partner? After all, if
there’s no such thing as The One, surely there would be someone else for you
out there?
But are you willing to risk regretting letting go of someone
because you are not willing to accept his or her faith?
In reality, most of us would probably choose not to choose,
but just put yourself in that spot for the moment… can you see yourself doing
one or the other?
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