Lies in Apperance

In the few weeks before Spring Break, Dekalb and the surrounding counties experienced a bunch of rain. Now it is not very uncommon to see flooding towards the end of winter, or even sometimes in the fall.

Day after day, I drive past the hospital on my way home from school for lunch. The different paths I take to and from school did not see very much rain: I didn't have to look for large puddles on the side of the road, worry about hydro-planing, or slow down because of water covering the whole road, it was nice. The water we got stayed for a pretty decent amount of time, but I didn't really pay too much attention to it because of the fact that the flooding wasn't really around where I live or my routes. It wasn't until a week later, when driving past the hospital, I happened to glance over at the hospital. I did a double take, and even a triple take, when I noticed that pond out front wasn't there any more. After my third look, I realized that it was still there, it just was lower than the hill infront of it so I really had to look for it.
I had been fooled.
For the past week, I had been able to see the pond without actually looking towards it because it had been clearly visable. Even though I have lived in Auburn all my life, and have passed that pond almost every day for atleast 5 years, I had bought into the appearance the flooding had given it. I didn't even realize that it had been flooded until after it had already gone back to its normal state.

How often are we fooled like that in real life? Even if we have seen the real thing for years, a fake front for a short amount of time can fool us into forgetting how things really are. It gets even worse. Not only do we allow others to fool us with their fake fronts, we even fool ourselves. I mean, its silly that we put on fake fronts to begin with. . .but how silly is it that we fool ourselves with them?

That's just something I thought about a few weeks ago. And it took me a little while to get it written down, but there it is. I haven't yet decided if its finished, but its good enough to publish for now, and I can fix it later if I choose.