Today I read a Maya Angelou quote that struck me like lightning. "When people show you who they are, believe them". That's so profound it's scary. Scary because we all make excuses for the people in our lives. We refuse to see what's right in front of us, because it hurts too much, it's too real, it's too awful. If we see it, we must do something about it. Better to hide our heads in the sand. Self preservation? Denial? A means of survival?
One of my favorite Elvis Costello songs is Deep Dark Truthful Mirror.
"One day you're gonna have to face that deep dark truthful mirror, and it's gonna tell you things I still love you too much to say".
Shakespeare said love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Until today, I believed that meant love is blind, blind to race, looks, gender, class. But maybe Cupid was pretending to be blind, pretending not to see. When someone, even for just a moment, showed Cupid who they really were, he had to look the other way.
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