Some things in life you’d rather not know. As long as you never say this stuff out loud, you can convince yourself that you don’t know about it:
- Your husband looks at other women’s boobs.
- Your wife buys shoes you don’t know about.
- Your teenager is having sex. Yes, your teenager. With someone they met in bible study. (If you’re lucky it’s another student.)
If there’s nothing you can do about it anyway, you might as well pretend it isn’t so and save yourself the stress of wishing it would change.
But sometimes self-delusion isn’t such a great idea, especially when it comes to things about yourself that you don’t want to admit to.[nonmember]..
Sign up as a guest to see the rest of this post.[/nonmember][ismember] Like the fact that you don’t have any willpower. It’s okay, most of us don’t.
When some super-human genetic freak with abs that can cut glass tells us that he lives on croutons and kelp, don’t go telling yourself, “Hey, I can do that.” No you can’t.
You know why? Because he’s a super-human genetic freak. Not just that, it’s his full-time job to look like that. Are you going to spend four hours a day in the gym? Of course not. Besides, he likes kelp. And you are not him.
No, stop … don’t tell me you’re the exception. We’re friends here, we can be honest with each other. Instead of trying to live in the Land of Make-believe, let’s figure out how to live in this one. (I’ll leave the boobs, shoes and teenage sex issues for someone else and just talk about how to eat.)[/ismember]