The game of pretending is such an interesting thing. We all do it sometimes. All the time, actually. We pretend we're okay when we really are breaking deep down. We pretend we're happy when the sadness that's taken over us had deprived any life from growing from within us. We pretend it's okay to do certain things just to be safe, just to not be hurt again for the hundredth time. It's a sad cycle and it hurts most of the time. The rest of it, we just become accustomed.