Part 1: Good at being bad?

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Sep 8, 2018 · 3 min read

I’m a Christian. I think. Although, I’m not actually sure I can say that anymore. Let me explain. I was born in an Adventist family. Growing up, it was church every Saturday and Pathfinder (Boy Scouts) every Sunday. I enjoyed it for a while until I got a little older and I could walk myself to church. Personally, I don’t think I’m a very outgoing person because I grew up with seven siblings. I never thought I needed anyone else. All my friends from church were only that because of our parents. So I pretty much had no friends from church by the time we were ‘independent’.

In our preteens, my siblings and I (hereafter known as Tweende) decided there was no point in going for Pathfinder, especially if we were not recieving funding to purchase popcorns. I can’t speak for the others; I didn’t know it then, but this was me slowly losing sight of my faith.

I did my early education with two schools- both Adventist institutions (no surprise there). I can’t speak to it accurately, but I think this whole Adventist environment somewhat warped my sense of reality. All I knew, in theory, was this is bad that is good. I’m not saying I needed to try everything out because certain things are outright bad, with or without experience. But I still lacked the experience and somewhat yearned for it.

By high school, Tweende had disbanded as some members were not around. This led me to branch out and make new friends, which I did. I believe that having people to enjoy moments with is very important. For example I have a friend only with whom I go to the movies. We see it this way; “I’d rather not watch the movie if I’m not seeing it with you.” To that end, my high school experience was amazing! If I could relive it I would. I’m not sure why, but it’s easier for me to befriend females compared to males. So I made more female friends than male. Sometimes I think I only had male friends because we shared accommodation.

My three roommates were all Adventist and this made life a whole lot easier. Because we basically shared the same foundation for pretty much everything. We went on to form an acappella group with four other guys. We were known as The Divine Brothers, DB for shorts. If you see most of us today there’s nothing divine about us. But we sang and boy did we sing! Every time we got called the congregation rejoiced, when we were done they rejoiced even more. I sang bass and at times little tenor. Also, pretty much everybody else in school sang. Whether or not you were an ‘accredited’ musician, you sang. It should have been the motto of the school. It was High school musical reenacted although we were singing about God’s love and not how we were flying and to wherever those guys were.

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