Excuses are a Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem: Unreality.

The REAL ONES don’t need excuses. An excuse is really just a reality deflection device that we use when: 1) We don’t want to accept some sort of feedback from life and GROW through it. 2) We don’t want to accept some truth or RESPONSIBILITY about ourselves and face its consequences. The thing about excuses is that people who make them are only FOOLING THEMSELVES. In the short-term, it stops them from having to face the unresolved SHAME that the situation they’re making excuses about is triggerin...