But...reality is, too, real.

People have a hard time accepting the truth.  We create these fantasies of ourselves and other people all the while denying the obvious.  If you are like me, you’d rather support your delusion with 1 or 2 shaky examples than admit that 90% of the time, you are, indeed, wrong.  It’s not until the paper thin walls of our glass castles come tumbling in on us, threatening to crush our spirits under the weight of disillusionment that we begin to accept the facts…usually.  

Why is that?  Why do we choose to stare at shadows on the wall rather than turn around and see the world, our situation, people for who and what they are?  The truth, or my version of the truth?  We’ve convinced ourselves that life must follow a certain pattern, that certain things must be acquired in specific fashions in order to achieve true happiness.  We put so much energy into chasing these things, that we stop thinking and just act.  We decide to look beyond the glaring flaws and fall in love with the idea of a person, not the person themselves, and kick ourselves in the stomach (repeatedly) when we finally wake up from our dreams of irrationality.

Now, I’m not giving the specifics of my epiphany, I will just say, there comes a point in everyone’s life when we grow up and decide we will not repeat this cycle of stupidity any longer.  We will stop reading so much into insignificant gestures and words; stop feeding the daydreams and begin living in the real world!  

Lesson Learned:  There is always a small amount of ambiguity mixed in with reality.  Because of this, people are often hopeful for the improbable. 

Rant over.

Ayeshah