Dallas Bragg on why lying drains you: the mental work of keeping stories straight, the exhaustion of showing different versions of yourself to different people, and why you're more capable of change than you think.
Here's the thing about lies. They are exhausting. Remember how much energy it took to keep all the stories straight? Juggling like spinning plates. To remember which version of yourself are you presenting to which person. To maintain that careful like facade of everything's fine while your world is burning down behind you. I was there. Now you're telling yourself you can't change. Nothing has changed, you see. You're still— Maybe you've been without Tina for a certain amount of time, but you're still acting like you're in it. That same part of you, they're just— you're saying that some parts of you are just fixed like concrete. But let's get really real here, you've already proven that you can change.
