be honest

today I tried to be honest to an a girl who liked me a lot and it turned out good….we will most likely never talk again but I was honest and sincere and it was good I just have to keep it up,..

~Throughout my life I have been telling people what they wanted to hear. I wasn’t being honest one-hundred percent of the time.
A girl I sort-of know asked me out—I was thinking about it for awhile. Then I was honest and simply said, “No”. Because I didn’t/don’t want to date her. I was kind of scared of ‘hurting’ her, I suppose. But darn! Did I ever feel good after getting the truth out.
She stopped talking with me, but hey! I was honest. Sometimes, the truth hurts. ♥ ~

Well, 3 years on. still not completely good with the old truth telling. by that i mean silly white lies, it’s like it’s a lack of communication skills. but i think i’m more accepting of myself. so i’ll keep going with this one!
Does this mean i tell the guy that i like that i fancy him? i think maybe…. regret what you’ve done, not what you’ve not done, et al?

I had to be honest recently about something I did that I was not proud of. I’m so glad I found the guts to tell my partner what I had done. We are working through it together now and things are looking up. I am so glad I was honest with him.

Yes, being honest has lost me a friend, but was she really a friend in the first place???

I think my honesty may have ruined a friendship but I’m finding the older I get the less tolerance I have for people’s bs. I hope Michelle can understand that by being honest with her I am being more of a real friend.

To be honest about my life and what I am.

That it even stops to be difficult at times

-To tell my stories

As Michelle is a very difficult person to be honest with I did it by email. I was nice but to the point. The problem is if I said these things to her face she would have closed off and given me the silent treatment – a form of passive aggression. So I’ve said what I wanted to say and that’s that I guess.

What do I want to say to Michelle:
It has been an inconvenience for us. It just feels wrong that we work hard and are very careful with our money while you’ve been living of a credit card then we have to pick up the pieces bcos you’re in debt.
Maybe the universe is trying to tell you something bcos alot of people have been getting angry towards you at the moment. You’ve got to start taking more responsibility for yourself.

Even though there are times when being honest has escalated conflict, hurt people’s feelings, and made me lose opportunities, I’ve never held much regret for expressing how I feel.

Someone tried to make me feel bad today, and although I walked away feeling very upset, I never hesitated to instantaneously express how I felt without shame, fear, or doubt in myself. It upset me to allow rage to flow through my body, but I stood up for what I believed in.

I felt more regret many times when I walked away feeling safe and avoiding conflict, never to speak when I had the chance.

Some of us carry psychological burdens with us our entire lives, haunting us to no end. Not one burden, but dozens or hundreds or thousands of burdens for all those times we suppressed our feelings.

When those opportunities present themselves to take a stand and express how honest feelings, it’s so crucial to act on it because it could be a once-in-a-lifetime thing.