3:00 am
So I'm posting this journal entry at 3:00 am. Why you ask? I don't know myself. I find myself looking at books on Amazon. Kinda of totally random. Past few days I've had these restless nights where the me who loves sleeping has been staying up late...for no reason. I realized that I am really tired.
The other day my friend and I had a revelation. We were wondering how we put up with a person who consisently lies even though we don't like people who lie. Our revelation was that even though this person might lie about BIG things, the lies doesn't hurt anyone. The lies only make this person "look" better as in for example, more smart or more "worldly." It was kind of a big thing because we could never pinpoint why we allow this person to get away with the lies. My friend then realized that the reason why another person that she knows is not longer considered close because this person lies about "small" things but the impact and the hurt that this person entails is quite gigantic. Quite ironic. As I've learned over the past 10 years or more, an important character trait of being a friend is honesty. Honesty that I know and appreciate the most is when a friend tells me he/she is angry with me. I wholeheartedly appreciate when someone tells me that they are angry with me. To me it's better than keeping it inside and then one day blowing up and making matters worse than they actually were.
The other day my friend and I had a revelation. We were wondering how we put up with a person who consisently lies even though we don't like people who lie. Our revelation was that even though this person might lie about BIG things, the lies doesn't hurt anyone. The lies only make this person "look" better as in for example, more smart or more "worldly." It was kind of a big thing because we could never pinpoint why we allow this person to get away with the lies. My friend then realized that the reason why another person that she knows is not longer considered close because this person lies about "small" things but the impact and the hurt that this person entails is quite gigantic. Quite ironic. As I've learned over the past 10 years or more, an important character trait of being a friend is honesty. Honesty that I know and appreciate the most is when a friend tells me he/she is angry with me. I wholeheartedly appreciate when someone tells me that they are angry with me. To me it's better than keeping it inside and then one day blowing up and making matters worse than they actually were.