The perfect metaphor for honesty
I was making myself scrambled eggs for dinner today when I just realized that cracking eggs is the perfect metaphor for honesty.
Try and crack an egg too softly, and it won't crack open, at best, it'll just spiderweb a bit. Crack and egg too hard and not only will the egg come out, but the egg shell pieces will go flying all over the place. But crack it just right and the egg will drop right out without any of the shell getting in the way of the scrambled eggs you're trying to make.
So it is with honesty as well. If you're too vague, it may make sense to you, but you'll just confuse the person you're trying to talk to or have it go right over their head. If you're way too direct, you'll come off as harsh and just piss them off. I seem to do that a lot. The "just right" level of honesty explains things directly so there isn't any vagueness but also so you aren't being so direct that you piss anyone off.
Just thought I'd share that thought with you all.
In other news, magellen owes me an e-mail. She hasn't been on LJ in ages, but I caught a rare time on AIM Sunday when she was not only just online, but also not away. She's online almost all the time, but 99% of the time, she's away. She said she'd send it either Monday or Tuesday and by Pacific time, Tuesday is officially history. Ah well, she's graduating too, so she's probably busy right now. Hopefully she'll get around to it sooner or later.
This reminds me, I need to reply to Bridget's email. She said kinda what I expected, but oh well. I'll probably reply carefully because I don't want to screw up the reply and piss her off, which seems quite possible given the subject. Although I doubt she'd really get pissed off, I'm just hypersensitive these days about that sort of thing. Stupid ex-girlfriends sending my sensitivity / worrying into the stratosphere. Did I ever mention that I have way too much empathy? That's another topic for another time though.
Try and crack an egg too softly, and it won't crack open, at best, it'll just spiderweb a bit. Crack and egg too hard and not only will the egg come out, but the egg shell pieces will go flying all over the place. But crack it just right and the egg will drop right out without any of the shell getting in the way of the scrambled eggs you're trying to make.
So it is with honesty as well. If you're too vague, it may make sense to you, but you'll just confuse the person you're trying to talk to or have it go right over their head. If you're way too direct, you'll come off as harsh and just piss them off. I seem to do that a lot. The "just right" level of honesty explains things directly so there isn't any vagueness but also so you aren't being so direct that you piss anyone off.
Just thought I'd share that thought with you all.
In other news, magellen owes me an e-mail. She hasn't been on LJ in ages, but I caught a rare time on AIM Sunday when she was not only just online, but also not away. She's online almost all the time, but 99% of the time, she's away. She said she'd send it either Monday or Tuesday and by Pacific time, Tuesday is officially history. Ah well, she's graduating too, so she's probably busy right now. Hopefully she'll get around to it sooner or later.
This reminds me, I need to reply to Bridget's email. She said kinda what I expected, but oh well. I'll probably reply carefully because I don't want to screw up the reply and piss her off, which seems quite possible given the subject. Although I doubt she'd really get pissed off, I'm just hypersensitive these days about that sort of thing. Stupid ex-girlfriends sending my sensitivity / worrying into the stratosphere. Did I ever mention that I have way too much empathy? That's another topic for another time though.