Posts with the tag “honesty”

“Look at me, I did a good thing!” Being seen is the quiet plea of every human heart. We want recognition, a nod of approval that affirms our worth, our success, or our goodness. We are not content with merely existing. We want to be acknowledged. Applauded. Seen as significant.  Read More

The fragility of their frame is not in the honesty itself but in their refusal to be wrong, their quiet conviction that truth must be agreeable to be true. So they twist the knife the other way, accusing honesty of cruelty, and the one who dares to speak it of arrogance, or worse—unkindness.   Read More