Making excuses for reality
What’s one word comprising 6 letters that describes an individual who refuses to comply with or satisfy requests and refuses to verify the truth of a statement or allegation? No folks, I ain’t doing no crossword puzzle. The word is (drum roll, please) “DENIAL”.
Anyone familiar with the word will be aware of its increasing manifestation in parliamentary proceedings, the workplace and everyday life. When others tells you that you’re taking corners way too fast and you refuse to accept it, that’s obvious denial (learnt my lesson that not all cars are created equal - and that weight and the center of gravity is the key (don’t you love physics?) - when my aunt’s suzuki vitara was running on 2 wheels instead of 4). When you wear glittery clothes with the reflective powers of a disco ball, and dye your hair the colors of rainbow thinking it’s hip. When you haven’t hit the gym and flex in the mirror and still see muscles, there you go again. When you see an old geezer grooving on the dance floor with some young thing, or when you see an walruses (ref emp23 on this definition) in a skin-tight outfit strutting their stuff in KLCC .. you betcha, it’s denial. When the media published a statement to the effect that NEP should be brought back because we haven’t achieved 30% bumi stake hold in the local economy – well! This is the ultimate act of denial. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, for more on this, either head on over to lowyatdotnet or emp23’s blog.
And that’s the biggest problem with being in denial. How can things improve unless the truth is confronted? The first step when taking remedial action is to first address the root of the problem. How does one change without first recognizing the need to change it in the first place? Whether you need to stop smoking or admit that finishing a bottle of whisky in one day is a real problem, recognition of the truth goes a long way towards addressing the issue.
Take me for instance, If I continue this way, I’ll end up strapped to life support and a hydrodialysis machine cause of liver cancer, lung cancer, heart disease and plausibly a stroke. And this I declare as I finish this post while finishing my last cigarette and jeeving up for happy hour is total denial!
