Where is the balance between revealing your true thoughts on sensitive matters to those in your inner circle you really trust and being yourself without caring what people think?

No matter how religious our upbringing was, there always comes a time in our growth process that we encounter things that force us to question and reconsider views that have been curved for our eyes for a long time.

These moments of truth are not just dilemmas in the mind. They manifest themselves in our actions.

For instance, an individual having sex for the first time with someone they love, and wondering what is evil about what looks like an act of love. Nobody is hurt. And yet guilt stemming from contradictions with teachings of one’s faith, to abstain from premarital sex till marriage, flood one’s mind.

Dilemma. What to do?

Or, take for instance a teenager that masturbates for the first time, without open parents he or she can talk to, will naturally head online to read more on the subject. Some say it’s an exploration of the body and one’s sexuality, others say its an entry point for demons into one’s life.

What to do?

If the person in question is male, continuously hiding and masturbating begins to take a toll on his energy, moral fibers, and time dedicated to other productive activities. Addiction setting in. Perhaps, it is as demonic as they claim it is. Or, maybe its the lack of self-control that’s making it seems so?

When we are young, we love to find things for ourselves. Good advice sounds stupid. Maybe we might be the first to discover something different and this inspiration drives us to pry and grope in valleys of deaths.

Where is the fine line between believing in oneself and being humble to listen to the advice of those who are ahead of us? At what point must I listen to myself and where in the dialogue must the voices of others be paid attention?

What do the inconsistencies in our character reveal about us? Are we really ready to pour out these inconsistencies on the table for the public to sniff and poke fingers at them while our physicians get to work?