So I pretended for the that one last year. It was "make believe" (a surprisingly ironic idiom.) And I discovered that pretending was not that hard. Church was my culture, as comfortable to me as being an Oregonian. The culture of Christianity came naturally to me.
I learned that pretending can be comfortable, very comfortable. Everyone around me was perfectly unfazed with my pretending. I think they preferred it. I discovered that religion encourages pretending. I did not know that.
Less than a year later and I would be off to college and the opportunity to start a new life, full of new adventures and new beliefs . . . free of pretending. I could not, however, have predicted that in my stand against pretending, belief would find me."
-Tony Kriz. Aloof
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