What we want

 

People are most comfortable with what they know.

Even if what they know is not good, or is painful. There is comfort in knowing what to expect.

A child grows up believing it is loved, so whatever happened to them is the love they seek for the rest of their life.

As adults move forward they learn to look for truth or comfort and if there must be a choice, many people seek comfort over the truth. 

They tell themselves the stories they want to hear; the ones they want to believe. And even if those stores prove false again and again, there are people who continue to believe in them. These are not simple optimists. They are simply simple and everyone around them pays the price.

The truth is worth reaching for even when it is not comfortable, because without truth there is likely to be no progress. No improvement. 

And what covers up truth eventually becomes a moldy, smelly, rotten comforter.