{"id":151,"date":"2009-07-30T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-07-30T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T12:01:03","slug":"lying-is-a-life-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Lying is a life skill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve found that I’m really good at convincing other people, when I’ve actually fooled myself first.<\/p>\n

And in the same way that you can magically ignore text messages when you know who they’re from and don’t care, you can amazingly ignore (and hence convince yourself) of surprisingly interesting things.<\/p>\n

Say, hypothetically, one is leaving a comfortable (mosquito free!) apartment with an awesome view in a delicious (in many ways) city.<\/p>\n

Say, in as soon as…hm…let’s just pick…eleven…weeks.<\/p>\n

In such a case, it makes sense to, for the sake of sanity and general happiness, change the brain’s course from the pattern of “but I haven’t..” and “there’s still….!”or “but the __ is SO GOOD” and .. right.<\/p>\n

It becomes useful to observe that…<\/p>\n