No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Are you willing to speak the truth regardless of consequence?
We are all willing to speak candidly, until such time as there is a potentially negative outcome that might await us for having chosen to do so.
When we are perpetually desirous of remaining honest in our responses, we will questionably arrive at a moment in which one of those responses may prove to be significantly problematic as a direct result of the impact that particular truth has on the audience who is hearing it.
When we are fully aware that whatever it is that we are about to express may generate controversy amongst the listeners, we face an internal debate as to whether it genuinely behooves us to to speak the complete and total truth, when doing less or omitting an important detail (so as to not to anger or offend the listening party), would be considerably easier and less stressful.
If no one is speaking the truth, then there is really no opportunity to distill the known facts or variables into a constructive choice for all parties to work from.
The truth can be incredibly subjective, for as we live in a perceptual universe, one person‘s truth is not necessarily another person’s truth.
In fact, when the two perceived truths are in conflict with one another, to speak candidly about either one will almost without question put a person in a tenuous position with whichever party does not see eye to eye with what has been shared.
Try discussing the Israel/Palestine conflict with people who are emotionally involved. Regardless of whose side you are taking in that discussion, you will inevitably offend someone. The truth is that both parties will have to make compromises and find common ground, for anything less continues to produce what both countries are currently experiencing.
Humanity has every opportunity to accelerate into a happier and more congenial future if people were willing to listen to one another more intelligently and allow for the possibility that what the other party is speaking about may have validity beyond the negative perspective within which it is being interpreted at that moment.
Speaking the truth comes with consequences, but negative ramifications of not sticking to the truth is potentially even more devastating and problematic.
Happy Friday!
Brian Weiner 