How do you know when you’re lying to yourself just to protect yourself or if you’re really sure of your words… if you have found a way to skate on a seemingly perfect pond of glassy ice, only to trip on a break in the frozen mass and when you regain your footing, you find your blade loose. You still skate, but you’re less sure than you were before. How do you know? Keep skating, I guess. Eventually, you fall or you find your way to the other side.