With all that goes on in the world around us, it seems such a waste of energy to also have to navigate through deceptions, but such is life. I will believe what you say, especially if that’s what I want to believe. I am that fool. However, knowing the truth, and choosing to believe a lie anyway, is a real problem. We can get away with it for a while, but our soul isn’t going to let us “get away” unscathed. There are consequences for choosing to live (or believe) in a lie. The truth hurts, yes, but it hurts worse the longer you choose not to accept it. Like pulling back a slingshot, the farther you continue without letting go, the harder you’ll be knocked on your ass when smacked by the truth you refused to face. Lying to ourselves is worse than being lied to by others, and far more detrimental to our wellbeing. Just because we want something to be true, doesn’t always make it so. Sadly, some of us end up wholeheartedly believing in and living a lie. Denying truth for a more comfortable lie, or a more convenient lie (event a traditional lie or “keep the peace” lie), will not stop the slingshot process. This is when it stings us. Then, we pick ourselves up, grab our bootstraps, and try to remember the lesson as we heal and keep growing. There is a lesson in everything life offers or delivers unto us, even the stuff we don’t like, and that hurts us. I believe that avoiding or denying the truth, whether ours or others, is the biggest lesson we ultimately learn from. It seems most of us learn this lesson the hard way. Now, once we know better, we must choose better and do better, for us and everyone around us. Right? Because, the truth will always prevail, no matter how long it is hidden or denied. Some people can, and will, live their entire life in a charade of lies upon lies. These (often miserable) souls will never be free, or know true freedom, from within their cage of facade. They will have lived this false reality for so long, that it has become their truth, or the truth as they know it. If their beliefs are challenged by a greater truth, they will get angry at the challenge and defend their believed truth to the point of their own detriment. I’m tellin ya, the truth doesn’t care what you believe (or want) to be true, it just is what it is. Most of us, wholeheartedly, believed that Santa was real, until we learned the truth. Discernment is something earned/gained through experience in these lessons learned in many hard ways. Yes, seeing the truth can hurt, just like growth does. Navigating through the deceptions in our lives is always going to be difficult, because having our trust betrayed is traumatic for us. However, we can still choose to be that authentic wildflower that grows through the challenges and deceptions in our environment and blooms in all its truest nature anyway! Even if the wildflower sprouted in a garbage dump, all alone, surrounded by unimaginable stinky debris trying to bury it, while being treated like a worthless weed, it’s resilient authenticity and ability to survive the stench it bloomed through is still a blessing to the bee!
