Then it hit me. I think we do not want to deal with the truth because we feel helpless, or hopeless. We think we can not change our circumstances because it requires serious effort. If you are in a financial rut, you have to get a job or work longer hours, and be really good at managing your money. That is effort. If your lover is cheating on you, you have to leave him or her, or you have to confront him or her. That is effort. I guess we are lazy and scared. No matter how you look at it, to get out of denial, first we have to confront our fears and then we have to work hard. This is not an easy task, no wonder most people prefer to live in denial than face the truth.

At the end there are no judgments on my part. I know life is difficult in many ways, but I also believe the truth will set us free. I wish my best to anyone who chooses to live their truth, because I know this is the laborious choice.

“Self-acceptance comes from meeting life’s challenges vigorously. Don’t numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.”

J. Donald Walters quotes (Romanian author, lecturer, and composer)

*There are two theories about how this rumor got started. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the ostrich lowers its head toward the ground in reaction to danger, especially when it’s sitting on a nest (the female keeps the eggs warm during the day and the male sits on the eggs at night.). “To escape detection, chicks as well as adults may lie on the ground with neck outstretched,” the Encyclopedia Britannica adds. Supposedly the ostrich hopes its enemy will mistake it for a termite mound or low bush when its head is lowered. Seeing as an ostrich is the world’s largest bird weighing as much as 400 pounds, I doubt they fool anyone but the blindest hyena. Male ostriches use their bills to dig shallow nests in the sand and move their eggs around. From a distance, this could look like the ostrich’s head is disappearing in the sand. That’s the other theory.

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