Two Truths and a Lie

Have you ever heard of the game called Two Truths and a Lie?

It's often used as an icebreaker at team building or social activities where people do not know each other. Here's how it works:

• You prepare three statements about yourself in your mind.
• Two of them are true and one is a lie.
• Then, taking turns, each person speaks their statements.
• It's up to the group to determine which statement is a lie.
• Keep in mind that these people and their life stories may or may not be known to the others playing the game.

Those who are savvy know to make the lie believable and the truths unbelievable.

Like the time years ago my brother said he practiced Bickram yoga. We knew he did yoga, so we said ok, that's the truth. Alas, it was the lie. He practiced Vinyasa yoga. Smartass.

See how it works? Think you want to play? What would your two truths and a lie be?

I've always enjoyed playing, yet in my early days, I struggled a bit with what I would say, wishing I had something remarkably unusual to share as a truth that people would think was a lie.

Since then I have found that truth can be stranger than fiction. As I look back over my life, especially the last ten years, I am blown away by the blessings and diversity of experiences I've had. And I look forward to many more. Life is good and it keeps getting better.

So, you tell me which of these are truths and which is the lie?

• I am an OR nurse with about 20 years experience
• I have five sisters and two living brothers
• I am an award winning belly dancer
• I had dinner with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• I performed the Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London
• My favorite food is fresh squeezed orange juice
• I was married for almost 23 years
• I lived and worked in the Middle East for a year
• I am an international volunteer
• I lived and worked in London for four years
• I am fluent in French
• I can play the piano
• I have trekked through the Sahara Desert, the lower Himalayan Mountains below Annapurna, and across the Jordanian Desert to Petra
• I worked in Healthcare Informatics for about 15 years
• I attended sunrise service Easter Sunday at the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem
• My favorite color is blue
• I own my own business
• I am an expert haggler
• I went sky diving over Stonehenge
• I am an artist and writer
• I have traveled to more than thirty countries
• I have three cats
• I have moved six times in the last ten years

Whadyathink?

OK, now, seriously, I want to play two truths and a lie a la cyber space.

With you.

In the comments. On my Abundance Art website blog so we can all see the same stuff.

This will be fun!

The Rules:

• Call out which one of my entries you think is the lie. ( I know, I have lots more that three entries. But I've been waiting my whole life for this!!!)
• Type your two or more! truths and a single lie and let us guess which is the lie.
• But don't do it like this: My two truths are 1) blah blah blah and 2) blah blah blah, and my lie is 3) blah blah blah.
• Do it like this: 1) blah blah blah, 2) blah blah blah, 3) blah blah blah.
• Then let us guess.

Let the game begin!