Sunday, June 14, 2009

Let the truth sting...

Secrets can't hide within the four walls that is my life. It has a way of exposing the lies. Within confinement, the truth is stripped bare and nothing can hold it in…

Whatever it is we're trying to hide, we're never ready for that moment when the truth gets naked. That's the problem with secrets. Like misery, they love company. The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open, like it or not. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore…

The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control... you're not. Because emotions get in the way, even if you think you've tucked them neatly away. Sooner or later you'll get a cut that rips its stitches wide open…

They say practice makes perfect. Theory is, the more you think about being a good liar, the more you become one. And the harder it becomes to turn it off, to stop thinking like a liar and remember what it means to think like a human being…