Enjoy.
Honesty is Brutal
The
truth, like being stabbed with a hot rusty knife and falling from great
distances, can be quite painful. However, unlike a hot rusty knife, the truth
is something that people could potentially want, no matter how brutal it is.
The problem is that the truth, like Osama Bin Laden, seems to be very hard to
find now a days. It isn’t impossible, though. Just ask Seal Team 6. The problem
about honesty comes from both ends, though. People don’t want to hear it and
people don’t want to deliver it. Kind of like a new born baby.
The
first problem with obtaining the fantastic treasure that is the truth is that
sometimes people don’t really want to hear it. Especially if the truth has the
potential to be a little upsetting. Questions like “does this dress make me
look fat?” have the potential to result in answers that people probably don’t
want to hear. But hey, they asked right? I think a life lesson that society as
a whole needs to learn is that it’s better to hear the brutal truth than it is
to be lied to. Sure, you could tell the potentially large woman in the potentially
too small dress that, no, it doesn’t hug her skin a little too much. Then she’d
be really happy… until she got to whatever event she felt the need to dress up
for. Then the whispers start, and you know the whispers are never kept a
secret. She’ll hear about it, and boy are you in trouble when you get home.
“Why didn’t you tell me I looked like a
stuffed potato in my dress?!?” Don’t
deny it, the little voice in your head that is letting you read this essay read
that as a shrill, yet feminine, shriek of rage. If you’re a guy, you might have
cringed a little bit too.
The
other problem with being honest is that nobody seems to feel the need to be
honest anymore. They don’t realize that if you don’t tell the woman that the
dress is not for her body type, you’re going to hear about it later, and it
will probably be louder. People need to stop digging themselves a grave and
realize that honesty is going to save you from a whole lot of crap later on.
You might have to deal with someone being upset with you for a few minutes, but
in the end they’ll be glad you were honest. Nothing sucks more than being lied
to by someone you thought you could depend on to be honest with you. So next
time, before you tell someone a lie, ask yourself: “is the amount of rage I’m
going to experience if/when I get caught in this lie worth it?” If the answer
is no, tell the truth. If the answer is yes… please reevaluate your life choices.
The
truth has the potential to be slightly painful. Being lied to is significantly
more painful. If you lie to people, you are destroying any trust they had in
you. If they didn’t trust you to begin with then congratulations, you blew your
chances. The compulsive lying that society seems to think is acceptable is
going to end badly. If you don’t believe me, I’m sure Hollywood has done tons
of movies on the consequences of lying. Go rent one, and then I’ll say “I told
you so.”
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