If lying is what it takes. So be it.

I try to be honest. With myself. With others. Even brutally honest. But then. Maybe honesty is no more than self-deception. And there is no honesty. We pretend to be honest. When we don't even know the truth. Or the truth is perhaps too harsh. To be faced. Hard to tell. Some days, I wonder. If I'm happy. Because I have learned. To lie to myself. Without  knowing it. But if lying is what it takes. So be it. --Jim Broede