So you think you have all the answers, or know all the loop holes. You think you can hide it forever. But who are you really hiding it from?
Don't tell me this has never happened to you. Be honest now. Have you ever decided to take off early from work and go drinking. You stay until the bar closes at oh say 2 AM, at which time you are extremely drunk.
You make it home, but aren't very clear on just how you achieved that miraculous feat. When you enter the house, you don't want to wake anyone, so you take off your shoes and start tiptoeing up the stairs.
Halfway up the stairs, you fall over backwards and land flat on you rear end. That wouldn't have been so bad, except that you had couple of empty pint bottles in your back pockets, and they broke, and the broken glass carved up you buttocks terribly. But, you were so drunk that you didn't know you were hurt.
A few minutes later, as you are undressing, you noticed blood, so you checked yourself out in the mirror, and, sure enough, your behind was cut up something terrible. Well, you repaired the damage as best you could under the circumstances, and you went to bed.
The next morning, your head was hurting, and your rear was hurting, and you were hunkering under the covers trying to think up some good story, when your significant other came into the bedroom.
"Well, you really tied one on last night," was said. "Where'd you go?"
"I worked late," you said, "and I stopped off for a couple of beers."
"A couple of beers? That's a laugh," was replied. "You got plastered last night. Where the heck did you go?"
"What makes you so sure I got drunk last night, anyway?"
"Well," was replied, "my first big clue was when I got up this morning and found a bunch of Band-Aid's stuck to the mirror."
Isn't it time to stop the lying. Isn't it time to get honest with the person in the mirror, or are all you seeing... is the ass?
"Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what you have to say.
For it isn't your Father, or Mother, Husband or Wife,
Who judgement upon you must pass.
The the one's whose verdict counts most in your life
Is that person staring back from the glass.
You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the person in the glass."
by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934