Taking stock.....
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (160960)
Boise, Idaho
August 23, 2010 2:33am CST
So, I am taking stock of my personality. No, not my life. Am I negative? I always try to be honest. Being depressed most of the time it is not always easy to be postive and I lose track of positive points of view from time to time. Am I being stocked by the ultimate higher power? Is he trying to bring me over to his side? I am an agnostic and I really have a problem with that if he is. (Haha?) I take it that life is what you make it and I think I have done my amount of good will family wise and other wise. I live in a neighborhood where if you speak out against others misbehaving kids you get put on a black list as it were. I am too honest at times. Honesty seems negative to a point. Its not always pretty and streamlined with glorious adverbs and adjectives. People don't always take what you say as coming from the heart but rather a cut or something. And there is always the little white lies that seem easier to put out there from time to time to save face or anitiate good will when honesty sounds so direct and, well, honest. So, tell me this: Is honesty and sounding negative at times better or is the occasional white lie all the better and just live with the stupidty of it all? What is your thoughts? Any ideas? Opinions? Thanks.
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@celticeagle (160960)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Aug 10
I did too but it just isn't taken or received very well. I get tired of being the bad guy because I am.
some one has to be the bad guy I put it on me as I am old and I have the right to say anything and I do
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
24 Aug 10
Ok..here goes...my opinion...I have often questioned...is igonrance truely bliss? Is honesty the best policy and do good guys finish last? I have struggles with these things for a longtime and what I have decided is that we have to be true to ourselves. If we can live with the white lies...then they don't matter...but if we can't then it is our cross to bear if we tell them. If we choose to be ignorant to certain ways than we will never know..good? bad? I dunno...I want to know though. I'll suffer to be educated. Do I conform to the norm? No..but it is not easy not to. There are people that will love us for who and what we are and then there are those that will hate us for not being like them...I personally think it is a bit of jealousy for stepping out of the box..but that's just my opinion too. Keep your head up and do things that make you happy. Force yourself sometimes..lol..happy is not always easy.
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@celticeagle (160960)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Aug 10
Your opinion well taken. I think you are so right! I guess I wasn't able to live with one so I posted. Hehe And these neighbors do tend to hate you if you aren't idiots like them. Ugh!
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Aug 10
I used to think honesty was great, but many people complained that I was mean, so I have to find nice ways to be truthful, shut up, or lie. I am working for someone who is dying of cancer and always asking for my opinion. What she really wants is validation. It's her life to live and die, not mine. I don't know what she wants my op[inion for anyway. It gets tiring because sometimes she can be manipulative. I don't want her to be upset because of something I said, but I hate it when she asks how some4thing looks on her. She's dying of cancer, everything still looks like she's dying of cancer. Some stuf looks worse than others. I wish she wouldn't ask and she loves shopping with me. There are mirrors in stores, I wish she would make up her own mind with a mirror. I don't know. I'm not gay. I really don't care what other women look like. I used to care when I was competing against them for a man, but I have one now, so I don't care.
@celticeagle (160960)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Aug 10
I usually tell people not to ask my opinion if they don't want the truth. Have you expressed some of these feelings to her? Maybe that would help.
@srjac0902 (1170)
• Italy
23 Aug 10
Once an atheist was arguing that there is no God , no God and absolutely no God !!! and he banged his fist on the table. When he suffered a shriek of pain, he screamed saying Oh my God!!!
It is the law of the nature. The dark clouds bring the rain then a clear sky and then follows summer.
In life too we undergo many faces of life between joy and sorrow, crisis and exaltation until that enlightenment comes which leads to an equilibrium to be calm in pain and joy, always unaltered, neither excited nor gloomy but serene.
Neighbors!!, yes we watch but the noblest answer is silence and compassion and patience.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
24 Aug 10
You have taken stock, while I have full inventoried my life and my end result is to be as honest as I possibly can. Whether people feel it right or wrong will not be my concern, as I find lying to be out of the question especially when directed to me.
Depression is something I have battling with my entire life and although it has reached it's highest peak, I have surmised that I am who I am and well I only answer to me and funny you should mention as people say I am too negative too. I often wonder it is because I do not lie to them and they can't stand the truth.
@raviteja_ravi84 (2620)
• India
23 Aug 10
As the saying goes that no good deed goes unpunished i guess being too honest would come in the same field. No one is perfect but all try to achieve so. Being honest nowadays is very difficult and it can land you in a lot of problems. At a young age we have been told to say the truth and then you could do anything you wanted to. All the fairy tales and novels which we read won't apply in the real world and the same goes for movies also.
I live in a way in which i am satisfied with myself and in a way in which my conscience wouldn't poke me all the time and making me feel guilty of every small thing. I have made mistakes some which could be rectified and some which couldn't. Putting that back i would try and lead a life as simple as i can. And i hope you lead the same. And i don't really care what much people think or say about me because that doesn't make a difference to me. I am the only person who knows myself better than anyone else.
Cheers!
