Hello beautiful Souls. My message today is about honesty.
The advantage of honesty is that it affirms and reinforces a person's integrity making him or her trustworthy. The disadvantage of honesty is that may bring punishment for admitting wrongdoing. The advantage of dishonesty is that it enables a person to avoid taking responsibility for his or her actions.
When honesty is taken to an extreme, it can become destructive. The unfiltered truth can sometimes be harsh, blunt, and painful to hear. It can damage relationships, discourage open dialogue, and even create a hostile environment where people fear being the target of brutal honesty. It cause huge pain and much hurt.
It is a possible to be “gentle” and be honest too. Sometimes we find it difficult to navigate honesty in fear that we will hurt someone too deeply. This causes us to feel guilty and even sometimes shamed. It is difficult if we are essentially a kind person and don’t want to hurt someone. Most people will see through dishonesty eventually and then the truth is more hurtful and will feel a sense of betrayal and lack of being valued and respected.
So much more importantly we have to remember that we do all make mistakes and therefore have to sometimes take responsibility and accountability for the consequences and to appreciate that often an honest kind person means more than someone who is not able to tell the truth.
At the end of the day our lies will always be found out and eventually even if it was not meant to hurt … it does. So gentle honesty is really the best form of truth you can live. A little white lie or a slightly distorted version of reality can smooth over the path temporary in order to avoid causing any unhappiness or sadness on both sides. The question is whether it will last?
Good honest communication and our actions with others is always the highest form of sincere honesty. No two people see the same picture and this is why we need to see the perspective of both people to understand honesty and integrity.
What’s more interesting is whether you are being honest with yourself or merely protecting your own fears. Maybe at the end of the day “honesty is the best policy” Too many are hurt because of lies. Are you aware of the lies you tell yourself ? Being dishonest with yourself too often can result in you believing your own lies without realizing it. The fear we have often ignites lies. Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world , be kind to you too!
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