Liars Are Every Where

Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Channel Lance Armstrong is going to admit he cheated.  I don't have any idea what he plans on saying or whether he cheated a little bit or whole hog I just hope I don't hear "I made a mistake."  A mistake is cheating on your wife once and realizing what a dummy you are and never do it again.  A person who cheats all his life didn't make a mistake he just got caught.

Lance Armstrong got caught almost from the beginning but somehow or other lied his way for 15 years until his lies caught up with him.  Quite frankly I hope everyone he cheated along the way sues him for every penny he ever stole that he would not have made if it were not for doping.

We love hero's.  We love them so much we will worship them regardless of how they got to be a hero as long as they don't tell me how they became super human.  We want to believe they did it on total dedication to their activity or sweat equity.  Please don't tell me they cheated to get to the top.

Isn't it funny that Lance Armstrong never won the Tour DeFrance until he had Cancer.  Now how many people do you know that go through Chemo for any length of time come back super human?  You know Andy Pettite Of the Yankees admitted he used steroids coming back from injury because he was told you would heal faster.  I suspect Armstrong became the super human he became once he got on steroids fighting Cancer.  He just didn't know when to stop.

Isn't it funny that Tiger Woods has not won a major golf championship since they put drug testing into golf?  He use to win every other one.  Success breeds forgetfulness as to how we got as good as we are.  We lie so much about what ever it is we lie about after a while the believe in our hearts it is the truth.  We  believe it to be true is is much easier to keep lying.

We all somewhere along the way have used aids to make us better.  As a high school football player back in the 60's we were given a handful of salt pills after every practice to make you drink water to replenish our water intake.  I did what I was told but then along comes Gatorade and we didn't us salt pills any more.  Because we used pills or a drink to make our bodies replenish our water were we cheating by not going to the water fountain and gulping water?

Is there a student in the world any more that can tell me how much 50x25 is without using a calculator?  Even those Hollywood beauties that we all love to look at went to a doctor to come a CC instead of an A cup.  Our world is full of cheating or lying.  You know what the worse of all is?  There will be plenty  of the people will defend the cheaters and liars because they see nothing wrong with it. 

 When our world gets to the point that we don't care how it happened just that greatness came then we are on the edge of losing civilization.  We are a sick world to love  a cheater as long as he doesn't tell me but call him a bum tomorrow when the truth is known.  In our own little world we too are cheaters to worship people because they are extraordinary.  We do it because deep down we all want to be great at something and when we are just normal we envy those that have done it.  It is hard in this world to just be satisfied with me as I am.  There is an old saying that God gives you everything you need.  It's our wants that kill us.