Monday, February 05, 2007
Telling the truth.
I've just been told by Dino that i'm a "little firecracker". Maybe he meant dynamite but was too polite to say so.Anyway, this and some other stuff at work got me thinking...am I really that fierce?
All i do is simply to tell the truth as I see it...to call it for what it is. And telling the truth as it is without mincing words equates to fierceness for most of the people out there.
Perhaps it is because of my lack of patience that I cannot be bothered to dress up the truth and spruce it up before telling it. I dunno.
In fact, if you think about it, most comments that are labelled "bitchy" and "mean" are just cold hard facts. Facts that are stripped down to the bare minimum.
My opinion is that most people cannot handle the truth.
They want to be told the long version, go the roundabout way. The version full of half truths and white lies. Maybe 1/2 truth + 1/2 white lie = fact?
If you can't say what you think but neither can you accept what someone else tells you...isn't that a very uncomfortable, repressed sort existence?
I guess if we still lived in Ancient China where women were only to be seen and not heard, I'd be able to accept people keeping their thoughts to themselves. Or, if we lived in an age where the ideas of free speech and human rights were still unheard of, i'd be able to accept that too.
What I cannot accept is that people tend to keep their thoughts to themselves in this time and age of freedom, only to explode at the very end where no amount rectification can help.
Same goes for relationships.
I really appreciate my friends who can speak their mind, and who in turn, accept what I tell them graciously. And who, of course, tell me when I do something wrong in turn.
What would you rather? A friend who simply watches you act like an idiot or someone who tells you that you are acting like an idiot and that you should change?
Give me the latter any day man. I don't want to be no idiot.
Perhaps I should really just hold my tongue when I speak, but simply cannot afford the patience for people living in a world of their own. I hate talking in circles man.
Of course, truths are hard to swallow...but if you can't even accept a fact for what it is or speak your mind when you have the chance without repercussion, what sort of ficticious life is that?
Just some definitions for your consideration:
Truth
noun, plural truths [troothz, trooths]
1. the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
2. conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement.
3. a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like: mathematical truths.
4. the state or character of being true.
5. actuality or actual existence.
6. an obvious or accepted fact; truism; platitude.
7. honesty; integrity; truthfulness.
8. (often initial capital letter
9. agreement with a standard or original.
10. accuracy, as of position or adjustment. —Idiom
11. Archaic. fidelity or constancy.
12. in truth, in reality; in fact; actually: In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire.