Time to Get Real - Mirage Or Real Reality?

Quite a challenge isn't it, when an annoying issue stares at us point blank, and someone tells us to get real! But there it is; we do not enjoy facing certain things. Whatever they are, we would rather not confront them. Often they are quite small - even trivial, but we just don't want to know about them!But then, what about the big picture; the really big one? Well, that is something else!