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(okay... hi everyone.. this is the first post of my philosophical journal. I love to write things about what I'm thinking and doing. My thoughts are sometimes very annoying, but I'll survive..)

Forgive me, for I have sinned. I heard this sentence in a church some days ago and I was thinking about it. Why would people ask forgiveness for their sins, if they know they would sin again? I know a lot of people who ask forgiveness and the next day they're making the same mistake again. What point is there then to be forgiven?

The thoughts haunted me for days. I went to a catholic church and asked the priest about it. he said: "We ask forgiveness for what we've done and God is a forgiving God. We can't go to heaven if we aren't forgiven." I asked him why we make the same mistakes again and he said that humans want to know about good and bad things and that they don't know what the outcome will be. It that true? Are we so curious?

Sometimes I think we don't care if we sin or not. That we just act like we are sorry for our sins, but deep inside we aren't. But sometimes I think, we can't stop ourselves from discovering what bad things are. Curiosity. Maybe the priest was right, maybe not. I guess it will stay a difficult thing...

I still think about it sometimes. But for now, I think it's just something we will never know...