I was 12 when I met my friend Fishback. His real name was Michael, but everybody called him Fishback. It was a typical 90-degree Tennessee Summer Day, and I had made my routine two mile walk from my house to the local YMCA for a day’s worth of pickup basketball.

There’s a question we all—deep down—long to ask, but for many of us, it’s become too shameful, embarrassing, or humiliating to work up the courage to ask it. The question is this: How do I defeat temptation in my life?