Glory Storm

Learning what true friends are. In my life I have had friends and they all share a common character, they are all less than 11 years old. Why would this be? Simply, people who are prepubescent have had little time to learn the skill of deception and lying. People are born with an innate innocence which can be quickly corrupted. The factor with a child born expressing innocence as innate reveals that the skill of deception is a learned process like swimming or shooting a gun. No one is a born speed swimmer of highly skilled marksman, these all take time to learn and develop. No one is a born thief or murder, these are learned evils.

Lying, guile and deceit are learned characteristics which develop with age and are refined the older one becomes. Due to the inherent propensity toward of humanity to gravitate toward evil rather than good is reinforced by all efforts to try and get something for nothing (which is simply trying to trick the laws of nature). What is this natural inborn propensity to do evil and learn negative skills, like lying and deception? In science it is expressed as a tenancy toward entropy but in theology it is called the "sin nature" of mankind." We are born with an infection which was contracted in a single act of disobedience long ago as one accounts the story of Eden. I all my life I have never met a person over the age of 12 years old that couldn't be caught with some level of deceit.

Because of this, I have sought to keep my associations among those who have little to no skill with deception. I have worked my whole life with young children and they have always served as a refuge of friendship for me. So in all honesty, I have never had a friend who was my peer. One recent peer claimed to be a "friend" but waited an entire year to curse the sacred elements of his frustrations.