With all these moments of insincerity in my life, the people I run to when I'm so
close to breaking down are the only ones who I know wouldn't dare lie to me
about their own sympathy for me because I knew they were real. Not like all
those phony people out there. Don't ask me how, since I forgot but I just know it
in my gut. If your brain doesn't know, then your gut does, is what I say.
So, this is where my best friend, Olivia "Liv" Jones, come in. Now, everyone must
know by now that girls like to rant and when they do, they need someone to
listen to them. And that's why Liv and I's friendship is strong. We listen to each
other. Even if we don't have anything to say.
"You know, sometimes I think of you forgetting about me as a sign that I need to
change. Maybe we all do. Maybe this is a clean slate." An all too clean slate.
"And, maybe instead of finding the old you, you need to find the now you
instead. Who knows, maybe it's the real you." she said to me once, when I just
finished breaking down because I was crying about how life was so unfair and I
was overwhelmed with the fear in my chest because I felt so clueless.
So, maybe Liv was right. About finding the now me, instead of the old one. But it
was easier said than done. Good thing, she was there to help me through it.
So, the second illusion I encountered next was both an illusion and a real one.
This was the illusion of hope. If it was an illusion or not, a delusion for the mind to
be distracted or not, lies on the person's hands. So, fair warning on this one.
Too much or too less is bad.
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The Ten Illusions of Life
Truyện NgắnGabrielle Montez wrote this paper for college, and since she wants to study Psychology, she thought it was fitting to share her story of how she got into a car accident and to wake up knowing nothing of her life.
