Innocence?

Where is the point at which we lose our innocence? Where do we go from a world where everyone has good intentions, our minds are unpolluted, and "wrong" things offend? Is it at a certain age, an experience, a conversation? No. It's a gradual, creeping corruption. It's barely noticed until one day we look up and ask, "What happened to my innocence?" But, innocence? Were we ever truly innocent? Were we ever free of sin and death? No, we are born with it. But at one time certain things were unknown to us. There were sins unknown and thoughts inconceivable. And then, through time, we gradually open that door and watch our "innocence" slowly fall away. For a while we are glad to no longer be naive, but there is a cost. We cannot expect to experience without being changed. Some say the change is good... but some wish they could go back. If I could, I would go back and do things differently. I would hold onto truth and conviction, refusing to believe the lies that I was fed. I would choose difficult over easy, loneliness over false friends, conviction over comfort, light over dark, truth over lies, freedom over captivity, life over death, joy over pain... I would choose Christ over me.