Telling the truth

It is so hard to tell the truth when we know it'll be an unpleasant thing to be accepted by the other party. When we already know or roughly guess how the other party's reaction going to be when we deliver the news (or the truth that we are keeping to ourselves), the strength to do it just seem to fade and the anxiety, on the other hand, just keep building inside us. It's like when we finally gather up enough courage to tell the truth, and when we are on the verge of doing it, the fear in our mind totally swallowed the courage in our heart. Then, the will to continue what we had planned withered away just like that.

I've faced this kind of situation many times in my life. This happens especially towards someone that we highly respect (or feared as a matter of fact) for various reasons or someone we hold dear and cherish in our lives. The cause of such situation happening depend on this factor. It's because we are scared. It's either we are scared for our own sake of getting hurt or we are scared for the sake of the other party getting hurt by the truth that we are about to bring to them.

Gathering enough courage and determination is never an easy thing to do. The way I overcome that obstacle is through consulting the matter with someone. It must be someone that we have a deep trust and someone that will continue to encourage us during tough times and not bring us down nor abandon us. Having someone by our side no matter the consequences can become huge source of encouragement for us to do something (or in this case, telling the truth) because we know no matter what happen, that person will always stick together with us.

You may think that this type of person is a coward. But I disagree. The real coward is someone who refuses to tell the truth until the end and the truth are only kept to themselves even though by not telling it may trouble the other party. That is my opinion of who the real coward is. You may also say that this kind of thinking are just too ambiguous for someone like me but this is my human right and the right of freedom of speech. Which means I can believe and say whatever I want as long as it does not breach any constitutional law and the law of my religion (if you don't like that than screw you).

I hope by posting this will give me some sort of encouragement to tell the truth. To those whom have read this (if there are any at all), may you find your own source of encouragement to help you get through the challenges and hardships in life.

A blogger regards ^__^