Rational Lies

[Gaucho]

"Why does what you just said strike me as a massive rationalization?"

"Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't anyone who can get through the day without 2 or 3 juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex."

"Aw, c'mon! Nothin's more important than sex!"

"Oh, yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?"

That exchange is from one of my favorite movies (The Big Chill) and I think Lawrence Kasdan got it right: Many of us do go a week (or longer) without sex, but how many of us can get through a single day without a rationalization? I know I can't.

So how about it? What kind of 'rational lies' do you tell yourself to justify where you're at with your job, your relationship, or even your life?

 

[April]

Rational lies=It's just temporary.
I'll get over it.
It's okay, really, I'll work for you.
He/she is actually appreciative, they just don't know how to show it.


Yeah. It's all a lie.

 

[red_rose]

Five years from now, this won't even matter, really.

 

[Shadowann2]

My rational lies....

I can eat this and then work out tomorrow.
Yeah, but he loves me so it's ok.
It can't be too wrong if it feels this good.
He's just too tired.

And many, many more!

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Frist, let me say I love the movie The Big Chill

Then I will go on to say that as writers, we lie for a living, so it's an unfair question to begin with. After all, we can't look at hardly anything without saying "What if" and then rashing out the "thens".

I learned in Psych that we use what we've learned thu life to build a series of filters that we processes info thu.

Rational thought and assumptions spring from the same place: What we've learned so far and what we are seeing now and how it fits together, sometimes what we perceive however isn't what is really going on. I think the diff between the two are this: A rational thought says "Maybe" and an assumption says "Is".

I shall now rationalize that if what I've said doesn't make sense that it's 3 am here and so there.

 

[Rubyfruit]

I just love The Big Chill - one of my all-time favorites.

This pretty much sums up how I feel about rationalizations.

"Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't anyone who can get through the day without 2 or 3 juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex."

I'd give up rationalizations for good sex though.

Hi Gaucho.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

I've never been able to sit through "The Big Chill," to be honest. But if sitting through it would get me laid, I'd probably manage.

At least, that's what I tell myself.

 

[Gaucho]

I'd give up rationalizations for good sex though.

Wouldn't we all? LOL

Hell, I'd give them up for BAD sex!