Of course, the excuses we conjure up are many and varied, and extremely creative. You can hear them every day being expressed in a hundred different conversations, and they are not the truth. Listen to yourself. Hear what it is you tell your wife, your boss, your mother. Tsk, tsk, now you have to add dishonest to your list of the things you most hate to admit about yourself.
Nobody tells the truth very often.
We are too frightened to admit that we aren't nice, and that we aren't good enough, or to admit that we failed. The only way to turn life around is to admit we are scared. Yet we can take pleasure from the fact that we are in good company. For everybody runs their life from fear. No one is excluded.