I wonder what the world will be like if everyone told each other exactly what they felt. If you don't like the way someone behaves, is it not better to be honest with them about how you feel instead of putting on a plastic smile and pretending like nothing was wrong? How long can you lie to yourself evertime you look in the mirror? Would your conscience not eat you up?
I find that too often people live in this garb of propriety...except it is not really propriety. I wonder in this case whether the fault rests with the fact that people simply don't feel or whether they try to conceal their feelings. When someone bursts out the truth, then the other "decorous" people stare at her, immediately making up their minds to ostracize her. In their eyes, this is improper, simply irrational behaviour. What could she simply find fault with in order to burst out like that? And why so passionately?
So they continue to ignore her afterward, for "fear" that they would disconcert her "sensitive" constitution. Why is it that people are SO unwilling to admit that someone could nurse vehement amimosities because of feeling ignored, slighted, trampled? How can people be content in mere civilities all the time instead of yearning for a marked preference or affection?
2 comments:
A friend told me that one must be prepared to be alone and handle rejections if they persist in being honest all the time...
I'd like to know if it is simply ignorance or intentional concealment that is the culprit..
I suppose it is one of those things to which we can never have a satisfactory answer.
Perhaps it could be a bit of both, like you said.
Perhaps the answer is not as important as the consequences of asking the question? I am not sure....
Here's sending you happy thoughts!
Have a good night! :)
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