more than just a lie

a friend had told herself a story that did hurt her. She started questioning her humanity based on a single sentence she once said to me. I forgot the sentence the same night I heard it and also knowing her well I of course knew she didn't seriously mean it. But her mind played tricks on her. So, probably 5 seconds after that incident her mind had already fabricated a whole story on how I must have completely changed my opinion about her. How everyone around us now sees her in a totally different way and how she will never ever loose the image of being a bad human. The worst part was every now and then her mind would play this incident back to her and the whole fabricated story around it would keep on living in her mind. No, the worst part was that she even started to believe it.

Instead of realizing this insecurity is the very evidence of her humanity and the fact that she actually cares, she fell for a lie. We all have lies we tell ourselves. Sometimes to make our life easier and sometimes those lies just hurt. We don't have to believe those lies, but we can only leave them behind if we see them for what they are. Just lies...