Quickwrite

It’s a part of human nature to lie to yourself. Every single human-being alive has lied to themselves. And I'm no exception. 

Humans lie to themselves because they want that lie to be the truth. They want the alternative reality where everything is peachy and everything goes exactly how they want it to. If a soccer team loses a game and they say that they were much better than the other team they probably weren't they just wish they were. I lie to myself all the time about things I wish were true.

I refuse to accept the truth because, in a way, I'm scared of the it. I lie about how people act towards me, about the way I look, about the way I act, and I lie to myself a lot; I'd say that one of my flaws is that I lie to myself so often. I can't accept that anything is my fault or that I'm wrong sometimes. 

It's also not always a bad thing to lie to yourself, it could help protect you from things that are too scary or painful to think about at that moment. But like with everything you must have self control with lying to yourself as well to make sure you can bring yourself back from your imaginary world so you can deal with your problems in real life. When danger is right in front of you and it's real enough you can sense everything around you, people start to lie to themselves. They want this danger to be gone so they lie to themselves that they are safe and that no danger is around. They are scared, and even hysterical, so they put themselves in a magical world where everything is fine. They just want to feel safe. Whenever I feel scared I lie to myself. If I'm walking home and a guy starts yelling at me and chasing me my mind is blank in the moment but after the fact I distort the truth and lie to myself to feel safe in my own home. The real truth or real danger or just reality scares people beyond their wits and it would make people go crazy if they didn't lie to themselves.