Nov 15, 2007 21:51
I think that words can often be misunderstood and skewed. People have different preceptions of things and different ways their minds work. Like say if I say, Pick up the trash!, you can either get a negative connotation of that or a positive one.
I don't think you'd ever understand a person's preception till you are them, or you tell them every single thought thats running through your head -- the pure and utter truth. Which is really hard to do with someone, but I think its the only way someone can understand your point of view.
And it seems like if we wanted people to understand us, we'd be brutally honest wouldn't we? Ahh but its not that easy, it comes into peoples preceptions of words .. when I say something someone can take it to total wrong way. I think we all say things that we totally don't mean for them to come out that way -- you just do that so people can acutally understand your point of view for once, you know?
But even if the honest truth is uttered, isn't it sometimes better than someone lieing to you all along? I mean I know it really hurts initially, but in my opinion for some instances i'd rather have people not fake some times. I mean I guess there is a fine line with it, i guess it just depends on your preception of things, how you take it in -- your own personality.
In the end though, do we really need to lie to ourselves and everyone else just to make things seem all sugarcoated to other people, so that their preception of you is crystal clean? I mean NO ONE is going to understand you/ me if you aren't honest once in a while. I mean if you just keep burying yourself in the little white lies that you tell yourself to make yourself feel better you're just going to loose yourself and possibly your friends.