QUESTION:

What are you pretending not to know?

AH! This one is of particular interest. When you are cursed with a brain full of stuff you learned - some voluntarily, some thrust upon you - what do you play dumb about?

Mass delusion and mass deception. The private self v the public one; the latter often far removed from the former. Projecting "I don't give a damn" when everything inside is screaming otherwise. Espousing wisdom when secretly sorely in need of answers of one's own- other than those one conjures up.

Mostly, I pretend not to know the outcome of situations. I delude myself. Guilty. Right to the last second of reluctant - and oft profanity-filled - outbursts in private, I stand firm in feigned insistence that "she'll be right, mate". Some have called it blind optimism.

Example? I know, for instance that this one road (or person) is a dead end. Fully aware of the futility in the venture I still turn into it, I still travel along it- right to where I hit my metaphorical (and otherwise) head against the sign: "Road ends".

I pretend I have no clue what my gut knows. And why do I do this? To prove it right. Which it is, every bloody time. (That's some masochistic shit!)

What do you choose to pretend ignorance of?