As I've gotten older, honesty is a quality that I value most in a person. When you are a child, I think you like people to "tickle your ears," so to speak, because criticism is an absolute devastation at that age. Ironically, it is the time in our lives when we are probably the most honest with people.
Why, now, are we so afraid of truth? Are we really protecting the other person or ourselves? Or are we protecting an image of ourselves? Shouldn't we all, in our adulthood, be able to handle honesty, no matter how brutal?
Honesty makes us vulnerable and I think that terrifies us. Vulnerability shouldn't be feared, but rather embraced. It is the only authentic state. It is what makes us human.
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