A few good men... or few good men
We accost people for lying to us. We say we want the truth. We say that we ourselves are honest. But, perhaps the truth is that we can't actually handle the truth. Phrases I hear often when I tell the story of my journey are "I'm better off not knowing." Or, "I'd rather not know." Even "I don't want to find something like that out!" I get it. Life is easier when it's pretty. Lies are easy to accept as the truth when we decide that it's easier just to believe what we are told than to investigate any further. As long as I believe it to be true, then it's true. Who wants the shadow of doubt cast over the comfort of the life you've always known anyway? However, the truth is the truth... whether we can handle it or not. Like it or not. We are who we are and we are related to whomever we are related. There may be people who loved us as their own even when we were not. Sometimes it was out of sacrifice and other times it was ou...