What Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac Taught Me
The Quiet Ones We Tell Ourselves
A Moment to Listen
🎵 Little Lies
Fleetwood Mac
Before you press play...
Give yourself a few quiet minutes.
Listen without rushing.
Listen without trying to figure anything out.
Just... listen.
Sometimes recognition is waiting in words you’ve heard a hundred times.
Reflect
Not every lie sounds dramatic.
We imagine lies arriving with villain music and a flashing warning sign. Something obvious enough to catch. Something loud enough to question.
The ones that do the most damage are considerably quieter.
I’m too late.
I’m too much.
I’m not enough.
I’m fine.
That last one especially.
We repeat them so often that eventually they stop sounding like lies.
They start sounding responsible.
We promote them to management. Give them a title. Let them run entire departments of our lives.
And then we wonder why nothing feels like ours anymore.
There are things we have known about ourselves for years that we have been very politely pretending not to notice.
The relationship we keep calling complicated.
The business that still works but no longer feels like ours.
The calendar full of commitments we quietly resent.
The answer we already know but keep hoping will become more convenient.
We are not missing it.
We are just very practiced at being comfortable with our own fiction.
Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies.
Every time I hear this chorus I notice something.
It does not sound like someone who does not know the truth.
It sounds like someone asking for just a little more time before she has to live it.
I understand that more than I would like to admit.
Recognition is often the moment we realize the lie was never as comfortable as we told ourselves it was.
It was just familiar.
And familiar...
is a very convincing substitute for true.
💠Recognize
This isn’t about finding the right answer.
It isn’t about learning something new.
It isn’t about creating a better version of yourself.
It’s about noticing what has been true all along.
What did you recognize?