The truth about honesty

What's your definition of honesty?

Is it the little sugar coating at the end to make you feel better?

Or is it the truth, no lying, no sugar coating, the person tells it like it is?

When I look at a person, honesty and trust are the two most important things in any relationship.

Friendship or maybe something more than that.

If you're honest, it helps me trust you.

If you can't do either, sucks for you.

See, if you make a person mad from your honesty, do you think they'd let you apologize?

Wait, shouldn't it be the other way around?

Just curious...

People tend to have this "need" to make others please with not only themselves, but with others.

Just to "fit in".

It's a terrible thing, what humans are capable of.

Well, not always terrible but sometimes good.

It saddens me that people have to take sides.

If it's not their problem, you can listen, you can understand what's going on but,

you shouldn't get into it.

I learned that the hard way.

So what happens when people are always happy and cheery?

What happens when they decide to let their feelings out and it hurts another person?

Would you mind or would you not care and throw it to the side?

I want to know these things.

Being the down to Earth person I am,

I tend to let the truth out in a way that makes people infuriated towards everything that I say and/or do.

Why?

Why is it that people can't take the time to realize that life isn't always perfect and it doesn't always go their way?

WHY?

So why is it that when people get the sugar coated truth, they're like, "Yes, that was completely true, blah blah blah."

But when you tell them the TRUTH and you're honest about everything you say,

why is it then that people start getting sad?

Are they afraid of the truth or what?

Because they'll be soon to realize that life is different.

There's a whole other side to it that people don't open their eyes to and it bothers me.

I've seen the other side at it's worst.

Yeah, it is scary but you know what?

It made me a stronger person.

It's prepared me for the worst to come and in the future, I'll be able to take constructive criticism with ease.

Will most people be able to do that?

I highly doubt that.

Look at the people at my school.

They all live in their little happy bubbles and when the truth pin comes to burst it,

they don't know how to handle it and end up being p*ssed off at the world.

So in the end, what I'm trying to say is that honesty will follow you everywhere.

It'll help you and it'll break you.

But how else were they able to make the perfect everything?

They had many trials and errors but hey, life wouldn't be like it is if it weren't for things going wrong.

Hope you have a great 4Th of July :)

♥Jen