To Be Honest
Hello my dear Steemians,
When I hear about being honest it always brings me back to my childhood time, because our parents and teachers both in nursery, school to teach us to be honest, that we should not lie to either our friends and or adults. Later on we slowly learnt that telling a truth not always pleasant for others. Sometimes you may be told that you are so stupid because the teacher needed to tell you few times one and the same thing. Of course, as children we do not want to be called stupid and that is something that are ashamed about. Later on we learn that we should tell truth in more careful and gentle way so that we do not hurt others and also that we do not loose our friends.
It is often truth hurts and there is no secret advise that could help. The only thing that I could advise, always think about what you will tell the person and how. First of all do not delay, it is understandably we often try to drag such things for later but if you wait too long that might be too late too. I always try to find something that I could offer to help. For example, if your friend is overweight that is something that we see often in UK, people tend not to mention anything about the weight. But we all know that being too heavy it is bad for health. I had such a friend, I told her that she should think about her health and try to loose some weight. I also immediately suggested her that we could go together for walks daily and also that we could both try to keep food diary. I told that I also want to get back to my fitness. My friend was very happy that I suggested that and she even told me that she always wanted to try keeping food diary and regular exercise but hesitated to ask anyone to do it together.
I did not tell lie to protect someone, but there were some situation when we do not if something could happen or not if we have done something differently. There is no situation I could recall when lie was used to help with sorrow.
I do not think it is good to keep something in a secret from other, because earlier or later everything will be found and I think the person who was deceived will not forgive it. If to do it with children then it is completely different situation but if a person is adult, then we have to tell him/ her a truth. We should give a chance for the person to decide himself what is better for him, but ourselves we have to be there to give support and comfort for a person.
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