"Life's like a movie -- write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending..."

Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie (Lyricist Kenny Ascher)

Although that works very well as a rhyme, it just struck me as wrong, logically...

If you really believe in what you're doing and striving for, you are not pretending!!!

(and you don't get a chance to write it all out first, either... this whole thing is one big improv!!)