What She Needs To Believe
This summer, in a strange “life imitating art” moment, the actors involved in the film version of America’s most celebrated supernatural love-triangle found themselves caught up in a Bizarre Love Triangle of their own. It’s still a morass of beauty, secrecy, and self-deception.
If I’ve learned anything in my 38 years, it’s that the most powerful lies that we tell are quite often the ones that we believe ourselves. Consider the lie on display in Kristen Stewart’s recent mea-culpa regarding her relational infidelity;
“…This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him… I’m so sorry.”
You might be wondering two things right now:
Where is the lie in the above statement, and how I know that a person that I’ve never met is lying?
To the first wonderment I’d suggest that the lie probably isn’t where you think it is, and to the second I’d say this, “You don’t have to know someone to recognize a lie; you only need to have been lied to.”
But first, let’s address the truth.