Sita Walker

And it felt like the most natural thing in the world, the easiest thing to say, the easiest thing to do, and it was.

I wasn't actually thinking of myself as a Baha'i.

I was thinking that I had no religion.

I hadn't...

I hadn't said that I was anything.

I certainly wasn't an atheist and I wasn't any other religion.

I just wasn't anything.

I just didn't say anything.

I went silent on the topic and just did what I liked for a while.

Yes, I absolutely avoided discussing it.

But when you move a man into your house that you're not married to, the secret somehow manages to get out.

So... How did that conversation go with them?

Well, I realised that I had to say something, not only because I'd moved a man into my house, but because I was writing a memoir and I thought I'm going to have to come clean with John and Fari and I'm going to have to tell them

You know, I'm not sure whether I believe this anymore.

And the issue that I had was when I boiled it down to the core issue that I had, it was nothing to do with what I could do and what I couldn't do or even with the praying or anything like that.

It was I just wasn't sure whether had I been born with no religion, would I have become a Baha'i?

Would I have seen this faith like my dad saw this faith and converted and known that this was for him?

Would I have known that it was for me?

I don't know that because I was never given the opportunity to be a blank slate.

I think it's really important for children to be blank slates, to grow up in a way where they are nurtured and loved, but also they don't feel like they have to choose the path of their parents, that they can be...