So....Being the oldest child in a family of 4 I've been raised mostly by my mom since she was home the most while my dad worked as a police officer. It was a warm and loving household with everything you'd expect from a "normal" family. My parents always supported us with everything and in any way they could.
As long as we showed them we were doing our best.
Despite both of my parents being raised in families with different religious believes, me and my brother were raised non-religious but we were taught to have respect for different believes and for ourselves to believe what we wanted to believe and to live how we wanted to live.
Growing up I've never had the need to dive in to things like spirituality even tough I had many experiences which I couldn't understand and when I talked about it with my mother she always told me that my time of understanding would come and that was the end of that conversation.
After an experience I had in my early 20's where I was standing alone in the kitchen and something suddenly pulled my jumper a few times, and it was really like when you see a football player pulling someone's shirt, my mother started telling me the things she had experienced and that she could make contact with spirits.
Because of her I learned that in a way I can do the same and with her help and the help of people I've met through her, my perspective on the whole subject of religion and spiritualty has changed in a way that I also believe there is more than we think. I don't specifically believe that there is a God or something, but I do believe in some higher power and if I had to describe the way I try to live my life it would be close to the Buddhist way (hence my name SleepyBuddah)
Therefor I strongly believe that everything you go through-, everyone you meet- and everything you do in your life is meant to be. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's unbelievably fugging hard. But it's all the little things in-between all of that, that makes it all worth it in the end (at least for me it does)