The Truth Doesn't Hurt, it is Uncomfortable
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Loading... - Makena Muli
- 07 Jun 2022
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I am sure you have had people tell you something crazy and stare into your eyes, “it is the truth”. Or maybe they were just right and hitting with hard facts and then but the nail on the coffin with “it is the truth”. And the truth is hard to swallow.
I have read many times on different platforms that most people don’t have a true understanding of themselves or they are rather pretentious and avoid the realities of life and when you confront them with the hard truth, they get very defensive. When you point out something wrong they are doing, they become angry or take offense.
Well, the truth is ugly I would agree with that, and many people would avoid it and rather live a lie, which is unfortunate considering that if you live a lie, you are lying to yourself. The truth wouldn’t change into a lie because you live a lie.
However, the truth is usually unknown most of the time, the truth tends to be way deeper and more nuanced and most people don’t take the time to go into the root of issues. What is “common” or rather popular are half-truths. And those are worse than lies, those things which are close to the truth but not the truths are the worst lies. When decisions are made based on half-truths, they become half-baked decisions that don’t give concrete solutions.
What are you basing your truth on? Rumors, hearsay, scientific experiments, or your observation. All these methods might be correct or utterly wrong in finding the truth.
Even if you observe something, your observation capability is limited to your knowledge of the situation. I can watch two people fight but I don’t understand the context of that fight. Maybe they are two friends playing around. I wouldn’t say I saw an ugly fight. I wouldn’t even say I saw a fight. However, some things are clear, if I saw them pulling guns on each other or beating each other like dogs, I would say that was indeed a fight.
Okay, that was just an example, I didn’t see two people pulling firearms on each other. When we talk about people who claim to be dishing out the truth, you will see a bunch of lonely people or exiled people. Governments or individuals don’t like the truth. You can be right for all you want but still die alone. I believe being right and honesty are overrated to some extent.
I have encountered people who claim to be real and brutally honest. They would say some things that won’t come out of my mouth but deep down they were wounded. They were cruel, not honest or maybe they were autistic. Honesty delivered without kindness is cruelty not real.
Real people recognize that sometimes you ignore some things or sugarcoat them or you tell white lies to protect people’s feelings. I was once in a friend’s place and she was removing a trash bag from the house to dispose of. It was smelling and she asked me if the odor is bad, I told her no, it is not smelling.
She, later on, asked me why I lied to her after removing the trash bag, and I didn’t answer that. She then told me I am sensitive. Yes, I am sensitive to people’s feelings. Bloggers, comedians are vloggers are considered insensitive and ruthless in delivering content. You can tell that such breeds of content creators don’t last long with their extremeness. There is time to be blunt and time to be sensitive. Read More…
