7 Signs You’re Just Faking it Through Life

Declan Wilson

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He dropped to one knee and pulled a ring out of his back pocket. She gasped, bringing her hands up to her face, she could barely conceal her excitement. He looked up, gazed into her eyes, and was just about to ask the question…

…When a man on a bike swerved around them, narrowly missing the couple.

“Ah! Didn’t get it, let’s try again,” said the photographer.

I stood 10 feet off to the side, which on the Brooklyn Bridge walkway is still in the way.

As I watched the dramatic proposal (re)enactment for the third and fourth time (the couple kept blocking the bike path and had to reset multiple times), I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

These people will live the rest of their lives telling a lie.

There was no perfect proposal. Only near collisions and frustrated pedestrians.

I dislike fake people. I understand that in our culture we tend to put on a smile to conceal the fiasco of our lives, but there are people out there who are so afraid of their authentic…