FRIDAY'S EXCUSE

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.  Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.  It is easier to make excuses about our circumstances than actually do anything about them. Once I ran out of excuses, I reclaimed my life. Now, I don't need excuses.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses. What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration. We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.

Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat that the same time. I've learned that self-delusion is much easier when there's something sweet in your mouth. If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse. But is the word used before you rationalize why the situation is not your fault nor responsibility.