Take the risk, and be ready to fall.
In life, you could always come up with excuses if you want to. We make up excuses and alibis to cover up our weaknesses; We don't want anyone to hurt us, so we put on this front that somehow makes us feel better about ourselves. The truth of the matter is that what's done is done, no excuses are necessary. You can't go back and change anything, so there's no point in being stuck in the past. Excuses never work; you're only lying to yourself. And lying to yourself never helps anything. Eventually all the lies and the excuses and the alibis fall away, and you're left here, stripped, with the truth before your very eyes, whether you're ready to accept it or not. Sometimes, it's just too late to pretend and it's too late to defend, so you have to deal with what you've got, and everything else will fall into place all around you.  ¶ 11:36 PM