Honesty

noun

1.    1.

the quality of being honest.

"they spoke with convincing honesty about their fears"

synonyms:		moral correctness, uprightness, honourableness, honour, integrity,morals, morality, ethics, principle, (high) principles, nobility,righteousness, rectitude, right-mindedness, upstandingness.

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I don't even like the word and yet, it's managed to find its way into my blog. 

Think back to when your friend tells you a story about how someone lied to get out of something and how the generic response is, "I don't understand why they just didn't tell the truth."

But, let me ask you, would you?

Every person wants to be the 'honourable' one in some form or another, but society, fear, lessons, mistakes have all taught us that the world can't rotate without the occasional 'white lie'. 

People say that they want to lead a life and their relationships filled with openness, understanding, trust and honesty, but I don't think that people really understand what that really means. It means that you have to be completely raw and open to releasing who you are to someone, what your emotions are and how your mind works. It means having to break down the walls that you've built up whilst growing up in a society that judges harshly, in order to receive the parts of life that are still undiscovered. It means accepting the judgment, the questions and the negativity that comes from the receiver of your honesty. It means acknowledging that with honesty, you stand the chance of hurting someone completely.

Being honest is not human.

If you do succeed in changing your mindset and you allow yourself to be unfiltered, are we really able to maintain that honesty?

Though you may have made a mental change to be the Honest superhero and wear your underwear over your clothes, your superpower won’t last forever. No matter how ready you may be, as an individual, there are people who are not ready to hear the truth or live in a life that is filled with honesty; and it’s their negative reactions to your truth that allows the statement “Maybe I should’ve lied” creep into your mind.

I don’t believe the world was built for honesty and truth – the Garden of Eden was designed to accept these and look how well that worked out….

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