Somewhere between the primordial soup and the dirty cell phone pictures, our minds invented a way to course correct for our mistakes and disappointments. Leon Festinger called it Cognitive Dissonance. The worst part is, it works, if only for a while.
Cognitive Dissonance is simple. You convince yourself that whatever it is in front of you is exactly what you want; that it's good, right, especially when it's not.
The mind's ability to fool itself knows almost no boundaries but eventually the lucky among us comes to our senses. The smoke fades and we see things for how they really are. Whether by words of wisdom or the flicker of a flashlight we muddle through the fog; landing on the long and winding road we're meant to travel. However baffling, we learn to trust that path or at least stay on it. And having no earthly clue where the hell it's heading means, we'll never be lost...at least not for long.
