I believe in faith. Not necessarily in church and in Gold but in life and yourself. I believe that your personal attitude towards yourself and others affects your daily life.

I know a guy; let's call him Steve, who has a serious heart defect. I am very close to Steve and it has always bothered me how he would eat greasy bar food constantly and not think twice about it. I would always say to him, “Steve, you HAVE to eat healthy! Your heart is not as strong as a normal heart and you shouldn't be clogging up your arteries making your heart work harder!”

Many say that I mother Steve by how I always try to teach him lessons and hide vegetables and fruit in his favorite foods, but Steve was the one who taught me a lesson. Steve was not worried about his heart suddenly stopping or having to undergo several risky surgeries. He has faith in his heart; he doesn't believe that he will die from this rare defect. He even pretends that he doesn't have it, that he wasn't the 1 in 2,000 newborns that it affected.

Normally, patients like Steve who undergo open heart surgery immediately after birth need another surgery by the age of 18 because of heart growth and all those “unhealthy teenage habits”. I would say Steve takes the cake with the unhealthy teenage habits yet, just shy of 20 years old, Steve refuses to be another statistic. He has not undergone his second surgery yet because his heart is the healthiest of any other heart diagnosed with this disease. Steve believes he is fine and healthy. He believes that his heart is a healthy, normal heart. Steve hasn't needed open heart surgery for a second time because his heart is almost as healthy as a normal heart.

Faith is one of those things that is hard to muster up when everything looks dark and gloomy. However, faith is one thing that will pull you through. Faith is capable of anything. I believe that faith can create miracles among people.