Checks You Can't Cash

Here's a list of 5 Things That Don't Deliver On What They Promise: 

1. Consumerism: We fill our heads with thoughts of, "How wonderful my life will be once I own that!" But all of us have experienced the reality of Buyer's Remorse. I am an expert at convincing myself of the necessity of material goods I covet. 

2. Pornography: Attractive, but also objectifying, dehumanizing, and addicting. A recent article in New York Magazine, discusses among other things, how men's appetite for sex with real women decrease after viewing porn.

3. Promiscuity: Despite what the latest pop song tells you, having multiple partners is not cool. STD's, emotional pain, and insecurity, form the tip of the iceberg of this destructive, but culturally acceptable practice.

4. Infidelity: There are three words for love in Hebrew: riyah: love between friends; ahavah: deeply committed love; dod: erotic, sexual love. Infidelity lives on the promise that dod love is enough to satisfy, but ultimately leaves us empty and longing for the substance of relationships that include all three types of love.

5. Lying: "Oh what a tangled web we weave!" Lying excels at getting us out of the frying pan and into the oven. In the end the freedom of truth trumps the convenience of a lie.