I think it's hard to tell someone the truth. Especially when you know they are being stupid, immature, and unknowledgable, despite how they act all high and mighty. Even more, when they are your friends.

I once read that if they are really your friends, they deserve to know the truth. Yes. I'd love to give people a piece of the truth, but they won't want to hear it. People's perception as one who goes on telling people the truth about them, as someone who's out to break the status quo, or I'm just having a bad day.

Sad. If only there was a way to make a 'truth' tablet and let them eat it, and somehow 'enlighten' them to the truth about themselves. Heck, I could use a lot of those for myself!

Truth is bitter. Hard to swallow. But so is work. So is misery, shame, the feeling of being left behind. The jealousy and envy of watching others who lead better lives, are also bitter, and hard to swallow.

Still though, it's hard to be truthful to others. They take your remark not as a desire for them to be better, but as a complaint, a nag like a parent. Inevitably as a result of truth, we'll drive people away, out of fear, as people are all comfort-seeking creatures for all they claim not to be.

I am aware this also shoots me right back in the face. But sometimes, truth said out is both meant for others, and ourselves. In fact, subconsciously it may be this telling to ourselves, that voice inside projecting it's thoughts hoping that by writing, and typing, we somehow realise that we are a fallacy like any other, none the brighter but are where we are for our choices.

I call for a sense of humility, that we are not right. More often than we think, we are wrong, or if you wish to stretch the truth, half-right. Either way, it's not being perfectly right, as such ANY opinion you have, if criticized fairly, should be taken as such. Our ideas are flawed, for however right u may feel.

It's just so hard though, to tell them still that your thoughts lack depth. As in, they come across as something with little effort or thought put in, without a good 'thought process' as they call it, before it is iterated.

It is understandable, even 'justifiable' if we hold an opinion as a result of us feeling unfairness and victimization. As it is once used on me, the wolf calling an unreachable grape sour, this holds very true. But to make life changing decisions despite such emotions would be akin to knowingly and consciously limiting our choices, and thus I would call this absolute stupidity.

As we grow up, and I indeed hope most of us do (emotionally), we normally get our of this 'world revolves around us' mentality. Yes. That is normal. But what is also normal, is over-doing it.

Oh well. I'm sleepy. G'nite world.
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