Preparation

By the age of 17 I was rocking it. I had little idea what I was doing except trying to make it easy for me to be a good Christian. By this age the narcissism that was going to be my defining attribute at 13 was no longer going to be so. I had developed objectivity to the point where I was confident enough to start challenging the religious teachings with which I had been brought up. I was on my own path and with the foundation I had built over three years I was well on my way to fulfilling all the requirements for the user access level which I now hold. I required no oversight, no mentoring, no monitoring. I had it completely under my control. With no idea this was true.

And then Marc Durant, a boy who had had nothing to do with me for a year and a half and had even super blanked me when I casually tried conversation a year prior, invited me over to his place to watch a movie. For no reason.

A few months later after we had become close friends I asked him why he did it. He was a cool confident kid. I was nerdy goody bookworm guy. It didn't make sense to me that he would do that.

I don't recall his exact response, primarily because there wasn't one. He whiffled and waffled and was uncomfortable doing so.

                                                                            

Hindsight is 20/20, but only when you have all the details.

Apparently it was a very good foundation.

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