The game had now started, and I had no choice but to play ball. And that meant I had to lie. I knew myself to be a less adequate person for acting in such wrong way. I had never lied in my whole life. But life teaches you that this is a sinful world, a world where in some instances the righteous becomes the loser and the lies help you go through the next step. Sure, both the truth and the lie have their own consequences, and at that moment I was taught that the consequences of telling the truth were more severe than those of telling a lie. I was becoming part of the sinful world. I, too, was about to sin as I pronounced the words: Read the rest of this entry »