“I Will Never Let You Down”: A Compilation Of Lies We Tell Daily, Part.1

I will probably let you down.

I will probably let you down.

Hands up — or “heads up”, rather.

I say “probably” because I’m not sure; I might, or I might not.

I say “probably” not because I want to, quote unquote, ‘let you down’, but because I don’t want to mislead you.

I would rather tell you something you didn’t want to hear than feed you a beautiful story.

The irony, of course, is that this is a beautiful story.

These are all beautiful stories; we are all an amalgamation of them.

The beautiful story isn’t the problem.

(The clue is in the name: it’s beautiful.)

The problem, put simply, is this: the need to balance our expectations. The need to manage ourselves and our desires. The need to safeguard against “all or nothing”.

We all know how this works: it’s not rocket science.

More than this, it’s something that we all see — and perhaps even experience, to varying degrees — in our everyday lives.

It’s inescapable, endemic, and it’s making us miserable.

Funny, that; perhaps things need to be different.

Change is a choice — or ca…