Truth is truth. And hindsight isn't always 20/20 b/c one brings today's perspective to yesterday - and that does indeed change the look of things...but not the Truth.
So when I look at pics of Coach, me and the little team, knowing now what I didn't know then, I still know that we were a family then, loved each other - no matter what was coming. It wasn't a "lie".
Yes, I agree and was kind of making that point that one may make a determination that it was a "lie" or it wasn't real and one may function with that as his reality but that doesn't make it the "truth." However, the objective truth isn't really the point when living in your own subjective reality...no I'm not stoned.
I just had to ask this L yesterday who was literally talking sh*t about his ex-wife (divorced 30 years ago, mother of his two kids and she since died of cancer) if he did anything wrong in that marriage and he paused and answered "no, I was actually really great," and then he continued to recall all of the ways she was the problem...
That was just a testament of how completely distorted a person's interpretation of the "truth" can be.
OH, what was my point? Sorry SP. Point was that it was as real as it was and now things are different.