The Whole Truth and Nothing but...

T…the Truth.

 

 “Can a human being accomplish being COMPLETEY HONEST in all ways”

I have pondered this many times and even tried to obtain this type of purity of Truth myself. The one thing that this journey keeps revealing to me over and over again is the fact that I obscure the truth more to myself than to anyone else. In simpler words I constantly find myself doing or saying things that were not complete truths.

 

Omission seems to be the sneakiest truth stealer. You know the old “ I wont tell her I love her new dress but I wont say I hate it either” type of omission. On a personal level I look back on years and find I have lived a certain way or taken a certain job or listened to certain people, NOT because in TRUTH they were what I wanted or needed but simply because I had little by little hid (omitted) the truth from myself, that I actually do NOT like what was happening. I lied to myself by refusing to think about my circumstances or saying there is nothing I can do about it.

 

I guess overall my feelings are, yes, a human could obtain COMPLETE HONESTY but most of us won’t ever go through all the pain and hard work of trying to get to that level. Because many of us do not do the personal soul searching needed to find out just whom EXACTLY we are inside. So instead we settle for surface truth, the truth that comes from the written or verbal language. We may not TELL a lie but chances are in one way or another we are living some small type of lie.