lunes, 3 de junio de 2019

How far is honesty overrated?

Honesty is a very important quality in life. Whenever we meet someone, we tend to wonder if that person would ever lie to us. Besides, trustful is the best adjective to describe anyone. So, how far is being honest with our friends and family, but most importantly to ourselves is overrated?

First of all, in order to maintain a healthy relationship, honesty should be worked out, otherwise, there would remain a reputation of a liar and nobody wants to be surrounded by false people. Among families, honesty needs to work both ways, parents should encourage their children from a young age to tell the truth considering that lying hangs over and covering it up can be very stressful, therefore sometimes it is better to admit when things got messed up and deal with it. After all, the line between telling the truth and hurting feelings is very thin, yet it is less damaging than a lie.

When discussing ourselves, honesty is the key to success, is a daily, hourly, even by-the-minute practice. The practice is being conscious of what we’re doing and asking ourselves why we’re doing it.  At any given moment, maybe we should ask, what story are we telling ourselves? Especially in moments of difficulty, being honest with yourself means separating yourself from your personal narrative since it is the only way to straight up and face reality. Furthermore, for self-improvement, we need to be honest to us,  otherwise, the only thing you could achieve is a short term happiness or relief that actually is really unhealthful and destructive

All in all, nowadays it is very important, to be honest. From my point of view,  it is the best quality of life. Also, I lose a lot of confidence in people who lied to me once. Lying in the least can shunt losing valuable friendships and not only that still, I think that if you enjoy lying, not only you are hurting your friends and loved ones but also yourself and your self-esteem