One Hundred Fifty-Nine

Skepticism about the words a person utters tends to recede when those words are coupled with comments that can be confirmed. People like me, though, who are deeply skeptical of others from time to time continue to hold onto seeds of doubt that can flourish again and build into full-blown skepticism. When that skepticism is proven to be unfounded, I feel shame, but the appreciation of truth floods from me, a burst dam full of water with no place to go but out!