What I am giving up for Lent

I am not Catholic.  I am not especially religious.  I believe in God but I believe I can worship God from the comfort of my own home without any of the hypocrisy that comes with going to Church, that is a totally different post.  Today, Fat Tuesday, we hear about "giving something up for Lent".  This year I am giving up something very near and dear to my heart.  Watch out people it is a doosey.

I am giving up my rose colored glasses.

My life is like entering a 3D movie, you stand in line, you purchase your tickets and before you enter you get your special, yet ugly 3D glasses; except in my case you get “rose colored glasses”.  Nothing exciting happens when you put them on, there are no cool special effects, the special effects are in the eye of the wearer.

I have struggled for months with this ideology that there are people and/or circumstances in my life that are different than what they really are.  I want so badly to believe that some people and things are the way that they appear as they do with my special glasses, that I throw all reason out the window.  In the end the joke is ultimately on me.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not a victim, those of us that wear these glasses do so knowingly.  We give it the guise that we see the "good" in people, in circumstances, in situations when really we are seeing what we WANT to see rather than what truly is.