I wonder if there has ever been a successful fraud. I guess we’d never know, because if it is known, it was found out.

I mean, I know some scammers get away with identity theft – the internet has made it all too possible to succeed at that kind of fraud.

But the bigger, individual, public frauds. The kind that fools a nation.

It amazes me that people always think that somehow they will be the one person in history to get away with whatever it is. Despite the plethora of evidence to the contrary – people continually being caught – they decide to do it anyway.

It’s like there’s some blank spot in these people. They are not going to be found out.

Perhaps it is pure hubris.

All I know is that I have too healthy a dose of the reality of consequences to go that route. Or maybe I just don’t feel that lucky.

That’s not to say I am not a fraud.

I am fraudulent in presenting myself as if I know what I am doing on a daily basis. I appear to be a fairly sane, fairly successful, fairly confident person.

Not at all how I feel on the inside most of the time.

So in the spirit of coming clean, to not go down that path that always leads to the revelation of the lie, I hereby admit that I feel like I have no idea what am doing much of the time, feel pretty crazy often and am terrified on a daily basis and usually insecure.

There, now you know.

Inspired by The Daily Post Daily Word Prompt: fraud