Being Hung Out to Dry

skiesoffarbanti

Dec. 9, 2019

(From now onward, I'll take inspiration from one expression or word to put together a short text every day. This one was WAY harder to pull off haha, and at times, I felt like I was going nowhere.)

The promise of being there for someone, no matter how rough the going gets, is often an unfortunate lie that either we tell to others, or that we have to deal with when we least expect it.
Considering how fast-paced our lives have become, it's no wonder that many of us don't devote enough time to nurturing those incipient relationships that we gladly disparage and tear apart when things go south. Maybe it shouldn't surprise us that much because this is just a natural inclination of ours. The blame is always to be found in others' yard, right?

On the other hand, when we find ourselves promising loyalty and companionship, even under the harshest of the circumstances, the excuses (or reasons as we prefer to call them) not to follow through with our commitments are plentiful, logical, and sensible. Rationalizing is such an effortless game that we play prodigiously well.

Be that as it may, it's often because of brazenness and fear that we promise that which is beyond the scope of our willingness and abilities, to end up failing miserably. We underestimate the effort that is necessary to be there for someone else, and when the realization dawns on us, we bail out due to the daunting challenge before us.

Wouldn't it be just a matter of having more humility to recognize our limitations? If only it were so easy.

Overestimating ourselves comes naturally to us.

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Bees

Being Hung Out to Dry

(From now onward, I'll take inspiration from one expression or word to put together a short text every day.

This one was WAY harder to pull off, haha, and at times, I felt like I was going nowhere.

If you want to say it was "harder," we would need a point of comparison. Harder than what?

The promise of being there for someone, no matter how rough the going gets, is often an unfortunate lie that we either we tell to others, or that we have to deal with when we least expect it.

I flipped "we" and "either" to get the word order to line up more with that after the follow comma. Now we have "...that we either... or that we have to..." and it flows a bit better with both sections starting the same way.

Considering how fast-paced our lives have become, it's no wonder that many of us don't devote enough time to nurturing those incipient relationships ~~that we~~and instead gladly disparage and tear apart when things go south.

I changed the wording to "and instead" to emphasize the contrast between nurturing and disparaging.

Maybe it shouldn't surprise us that much because this is just a natural inclination of ours.

The blame is always to be found in others' yards, right? ¶
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On the other hand, when we find ourselves promising loyalty and companionship, even under the harshest of the circumstances, the excuses (or reasons as we prefer to call them) not to follow through with our commitments are plentiful, logical, and sensible.

Rationalizing is such an effortless game that we play prodigiously well.

Be that as it may, it's often because of brazenness and fear that we promise that which is beyond the scope of our willingness and abilities, only to end up failing miserably.

We underestimate the effort that is necessary to be there for someone else, and when theat realization dawns on us, we bail out due to the daunting challenge before us. ¶
¶
¶

Wouldn't it be just a matter of having more humility to recognize our limitations?

If only it were so easy.

Overestimating ourselves comes naturally to us.

shin1

BOn being Hung Out tTo Dry

(From ~~now onward~~here on out, I'll take inspiration from ~~one~~an expression or word to put together a short text every day.

This one was WAY harder to pull off haha, and at times, I felt like I was going nowhere.

The promise of being there for someone, no matter how rough the going gets, is often an unfortunate lie that either we tell to others, - or that we have to deal with when we least expect it.

Considering how fast-paced our lives have become, it's no wonder that many of us don't devote enough time to nurturing those incipient relationships that we gladly disparage and tear apart when things go south.

The blame is always to be found in the others's yard, right? ¶
¶
¶

We underestimate the effort that is necessary to be there for someone else, and when the realization dawns on us, we tend to just bail out due to the daunting challenge ~~before us. ¶~~
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¶

Wouldn't it be just a matter of having more humility to recognize our limitations?

Overestimating ourselves comes naturally to us.

shin1

Dec. 9, 2019

BOn being Hung Out tTo Dry

Or do 'On: Being Hung Out to Dry'

kiki0405

Being Hung Out to Dry

(From now onward, I'll take inspiration from one expression or word to put together a short text every day.

This one was WAY harder to pull off haha, and at times, I felt like I was going nowhere.

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The promise of being there for someone, no matter how rtough the going gets, is often an unfortunate lie that either we tell to others, or that we have to deal with when we least expect it.

The phrase you're looking for is "when the going gets tough, the tough get going."

Maybe it shouldn't surprise us that much because this is just a natural inclination of ours.

Be that as it may, it's often because of brazenness and fear that we promise that which is beyond the scope of our willingness and abilities~~, to end up failing miserably~~.

We underestimate the effort that is necessary to be there for someone else, and when the realization dawns on us, we bail out due to the daunting challenge before us.

Wouldn't it be just a matter of having more humility to recognize our limitations?

If only it were so easy.

Overestimating ourselves comes naturally to us.

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Very good, feels quite natural.

Being Hung Out to Dry