How many of us are hiding from the truth? So often we do not want to deal with what is real for us because we cannot tolerate the pain in what the truth tells us; that we are not good enough. What this means is we are always running from what we believe to be the truth and creating an image of ourselves that is very far away from it. We cannot look at the truth because it only shows us how fake we have been and that our authentic self is in hiding.
Our image becomes so much more important to us than the truth. We have created one that the world accepts and cannot see the underbelly of our ugliness or at least that we see as ugly. In so many cases it is not as bad as we make it out to be, but we cannot understand that. We have just disgusted ourselves with what we believe to be so damning that even for us it is difficult to see the truth beneath the veneer of our fake image. We need to deceive ourselves even more than we need to deceive others. At some point, we begin to believe the lie!
What can we do to stop hiding from others, from hiding from ourselves? We need to start by being honest with ourselves and stop the lies that we are perpetuating. It is so difficult to admit that we have been false in who we have represented ourselves to be, but what choice do we really have? We will eventually get caught and we need to decide which is worse; being discovered or telling the truth? Being discovered makes us look like dishonest fools while standing up and telling the truth makes us look like heroes in our own life. Being respected for telling the truth allows us to recover to an honest self while being exposed only deepens peoples’ mistrust of us. It does not matter what the lie is, for a lie is a lie!