Truthfulness

Truthfulness is so vital to a good friendship. What is friendship for, if not to share what you really think and feel, with someone you're comfortable with? I may have brought up the thought before about people who, when you ask them a question about themselves, instead of giving you a direct answer, they turn around and think for a minute, and calculate what might impress the most, and then answer with that. A complete falsehood. Now, we seek friends because we want to share with someone those things that are meaningful to us. How can we possibly uncover meaning when someone is lying to us?

Then of course, if we want to make friends, we need to cultivate a disposition that we accept others just as they are. If we act as if we are fussy about what our friends are like, if we create an atmosphere with people that makes them scared that we're going to fly off the handle if they tell us certain things, then it will be difficult to find people who feel at ease enough around us to be truthful.

My recommendation is, be yourself around people. When you come to terms with all that is true about you, and feel comfortable enough with yourself to where you don't have to keep secrets, you will find that life can be such a blessing, full of meaning and love! And if you are longing to feel good about yourself also, being truthful is a really great place to start. Because even if you have a past that you feel horrible about, or your present circumstances are not so desirable, when you are truthful, then you at least you have that to feel good about.

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