Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Honesty is Soul Searching
Honesty is such a soul searching topic. First, I think we need to be honest with ourselves. Sometimes that is easy but often it is extremely difficult. We tend to be with honest about cheating, lying to others, stealing, killing, and all those black and white ten commandment type issues Secondly, the part is being honest with those gray issues that come up in our lives is the most perplexing problem for me. How do I feel about something that is bothering me? How do I communicate with others honestly? I hear someone tell me that they are "brutally honest" but that person has lied to me recently to prove a point and embellished a situation or memory. Honesty needs credibility or it looses it's effect. The question is: can I be honest with myself now, and get beyond this breach to accept future integrity? What would you do?
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I decided today to actually respond to my own blog. When I wrote my initial required blog for this english assignment, I was upset. My blog was short and I was alittle embarrassed by the quality of it when we reviewed it in class. I left it with a question. What would you do? What actually happened the next day after class was my good friend and I met. Honest with our feelings we talked and listened to each other. To be honest with others you also need to be honest with ourselves. Perspective has alot to do with honesty. We talked about white lies in class and I was aware that I tell many of them, probably too many, thinking I am being nice. But am I really being insincere and is it isn't necessary. Maybe I need to just be more quiet and step back some. My friend says she didn't lie but where she presented information as if someone verbally told her something, she actually was told that person said it. When I confronted the source who supposedly said it they didn't know what I was talking about. Hence, sometimes our honesty gets lost in translation. We are not always the best communicators. We are human. One person being honest can be hurtful. Communication between people often stresses, softens, or potentially explains your honest feelings. Life is not black or white. Honesty without communication is often misinterpreted internally by ourselves or externally by others. Life is a journey where we are constantly learning...maybe we need to learn experience honesty to become who we are.
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