I do now believe that the truth is the hardest to find. How truthful are you? Have you always been telling the truth and nothing but the truth? I bet you hardly do.
Our insouciant disregard for honesty is really a result of our Eastern upbringing. Take this as an example. Your friend prepare you a pot of steaming chicken curry. You praised the cooking though it tasted so much like curried water. Another example. The friend who constantly hurting you, by right, should not have any room in your life and yet we brush such matter away. Telling the world that we are happy when we are not. Smiling when what we wanted the most is to curl up under the cover. For a not-too-obvious reason, we are secretly ashamed to feel the way we do. Hence, we ended up pretending that everything is just fine. White lie, huh?
We are actually living in a constant state of denial. That is the hardest fact that a number of us have chosen to ignore. Not too surprising however, the one that we lied to the most is the one that is the closest to us. All this while, we are not aware that we have been lying for a countless time. We have made a conscious effort to not telling the harsh and ill-defined fact straight to our friend's face. We just do not hold a heart strong enough to see others shedding tears for a reason that is better left unsaid. If you do practise this, do you then still believe that honesty is the best policy? (Do not lie!)
Whatever it is, I wanted to live by this policy instead. I believe everything will fall into place by itself. And that is for the time to decide.
Our insouciant disregard for honesty is really a result of our Eastern upbringing. Take this as an example. Your friend prepare you a pot of steaming chicken curry. You praised the cooking though it tasted so much like curried water. Another example. The friend who constantly hurting you, by right, should not have any room in your life and yet we brush such matter away. Telling the world that we are happy when we are not. Smiling when what we wanted the most is to curl up under the cover. For a not-too-obvious reason, we are secretly ashamed to feel the way we do. Hence, we ended up pretending that everything is just fine. White lie, huh?
We are actually living in a constant state of denial. That is the hardest fact that a number of us have chosen to ignore. Not too surprising however, the one that we lied to the most is the one that is the closest to us. All this while, we are not aware that we have been lying for a countless time. We have made a conscious effort to not telling the harsh and ill-defined fact straight to our friend's face. We just do not hold a heart strong enough to see others shedding tears for a reason that is better left unsaid. If you do practise this, do you then still believe that honesty is the best policy? (Do not lie!)
Whatever it is, I wanted to live by this policy instead. I believe everything will fall into place by itself. And that is for the time to decide.
2 comments:
We're in a play walter. The world does not allow you to be honest all the time. With honesty, comes guilt. Guilt can actually kill you~ so in conclusion, sometimes, you just have to fake it. This is my policy. Hehe
Hehehe.. Very true indeed, Nana..
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