The Truth Hurts

amadaeus

This is a nonsensical rant. You probably won't understand it, but there are so many *cough* truths*cough cough* in it. It would probably make you cry if you did understand it.

Isn't it ironic how 2 friends come to your house to cheer you up because you are sick, and they both end up leaving about twenty times worse off mentally than you were in the beginning?

Why were they hurt? Because of the truth.

The truth is life's worst irony. The truth hurts. And it doesn't matter what direction it comes from. It always hurts someone, because there is always someone who can't accept it. I mean, its not like the truth would always hurt someone, but there are just so many different types, so many different situations. It's uncontrollable. You may think you can handle it now, but when the time comes when the truth hurts you. Your mind will be running over the thought "What the hell was I thinking".

So... What holds it together the rest of the time. Is it the lies, the hidden truths, the denial. Is this what our society is based off of? Since there is always someone out there who can't handle the truth, should society just spit out lies that everyone can accept as real? So no one is hurt? What the ****** has humanity come to?

But why are people hurt by the truth? Why are they afraid of it? Is it because with almost every truth there is a repercussion? But how does lying do us any better? Doesn't lying just delay the inevitable?

I mean. Those 2 friends who have been BEST friends for so long... now one won't ever talk to the other ever again. Just because they both told the truth. I told the truth and I lost a friend now too. THIS ISN"T WHAT THE TRUTH IS SUPPOSED TO DO!

"The truth shall set you free" Set me free from what? From guilt? Now I have to make the decision between whether I want to live with guilt for the rest of my life or whether I want to keep a friend? Because obviously its impossible to live with both. I don't know anymore. Five years from now I will be thinking of the decision I made today or tomorrow or yesterday, and ask my self "Was it worth it"

I hate when I rant on like this but my mind is just so full of ideas and questions I just feel the need to let it all out.

ocalhoun

elizajade3

Ahh.....sounds like something I went through and wrote about many a times before. Welcome to "life". Sit back, enjoy the ride, and be good to others as you would to yourself. Don't question yourself so much on every little thing. Life will go on....as it always does.

A good friend told me something that helped me (and is still helping me) get through this very similar part of life that you're going through. She said, "What is the worst possible outcome that could happen to you in this situation?". My response was, "I don't know.....people might think I'm really crazy and run away from me leaving me with absolutely no one....and alone forever" (which at the time was exactly where I "thought" I was). She then responded with, "And then what". I said, "What do you mean, And then what???" At this point I was ready to ring her neck because I was "angry" and she wasn't getting her point across to me. She simply replied, "Would you still get up in the mornings, go to work, do your daily routines, etc. etc.?" I said, "yes". She said, "Okay, so you would STILL BE OKAY, right?". Umm.....yes.
So whatever it is you're going through (this right now, a big zit on your face, etc. etc.) ask yourself a few simple (AND TRUTHFUL) questions: What's the worst thing that could happen to me? Followed by and answer and then immediately followed by the second question.
And then what? You'll ALWAYS have an answer to "And then what" which means you will always be okay no matter where you're at, what you're doing, or why you're doing it. You always move forward.

Just a little something that helps me along my little path of life......and truth.

TrueFact

Well, Look at my nick name and try to think deeply into it. the TRUE fact... what you consider in the first place as facts? how these facts will affect other people? will you lose some one if you tell him the truth?

A doctor in a hospital refused to tell my friend that he has a cancer because he hates to tell people how bad the situation is and left me behind to do his job... and guess what? i told my friend that his life is in danger and that he has cancer and he is too late...

Let's talk about the doctor first.

How much bad it can get if he told the truth? How much good it will do if he lied or hed the truth? Nothing at all... he will remain sick and he will die.

Same questions for me... what good or bad it will do if i lie? Nothing but delaying it and going again to another doctor and that time he may hear the truth... The truth doesn't hurt... that's my idea. We are the ones who dream about something and wait for it while it is nothing more than DREAMS... and when the truth comes we are shocked becuase it wasn't what we want and what are waiting for.

What TrueFact came from was the movie True Lies... I never watched the movie but the name made me think if there's true lies... then how many facts are false or wrong. I've been looking into every thing we consider as Facts and Truth from scientific facts to religions facts and found nothing is a true fact and there's nothing as true lie. It all depends on what we think is truth and a fact.

You lost a friend... well... his idea about friendship is wrong and couldn't accept the TRUTH (If you can define a truth for a freindship) of friend ship and didn't beleave the TRUTH you've been telling him.

So

TRUTH doesn't hurt... but we FOOL ourselves till the time we see it.

Jakob [JaWGames]

In the lengt you almost always gets out more by telling the truth, telling a friend a truth which he/she don`t likes is much, much better than if he/she later realises the truth AND that you have lied for him/her. Truth comes sooner or later up to the surface.

But sometimes, sometimes it can be better to at least avoid the question than telling the truth, like if you friend played totally worthless in a big event on some kind of instrument and then were very proud of it and asked you how you think that it sounded, then I think that it may be better to avoid the question than teling him something like "you played totally crappy".

In serious situations though, is it almost always better to tell the truth.

fasa

In my mind theres a fine line between the truth and an opinion, in most cases. Since what we conceive as the truth is almost always based on what we think about the subject.
The truth is a lot of the time subjective to the source, of which we acquire the "truth" since there is a lot we simply can not know by experience and we have to guess or believe another persons view off and then were already on a slippery slope.
Another big part in all this in my opinion is consideration i don't need to tell people that they don't sing well or anything like that unless directly asked since first of all thats my opinion and not an objective truth( like the grass is green) and second of all i cant see what good that would come of my need to force my opinion on someone who doesn't necessarily want it.

Jakob [JaWGames]

Duncan Idaho

Hm, I don't see why people can say what is truth and fake because all people live in what they see of life. For instance, I am looking at a painting. Yet you may call it a mural. I see a pagan in the painting. Yet the other may see god. I look at a cross on someone's neck and I think they are a christian. But upon closer inspection, it's turned upside down. You should try to find your place in the world because someone else is looking to take it before you, and they won't care about anything you say.

Duncan Idaho

Also, "truth" is not a word without irony. Truth is a lie that all believe, and in that thought that makes it a fact that can be proven with evidence that some/all will see differently if not -somewhat- similar.