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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  What can I say? I totally reject that whole mindset. I can't imagine any conscious human being wanting to live like that. Are human beings so beaten down these days that they feel they must hide the truth in order to garner shallow acceptance from false friends? This is high scool level thinking. It's time for us to grow up and get past it.
If you have to hide the truth to maintain a job, you're a phony to begin with. Your job is based on false pretenses. Better to tell the truth, get fired, and go to work with more conscious people instead of being surrounded by the dregs of society, regardless of how well-dressed they may be. Then you can do more meaningful work, like by helping to transform society so people don't have to live like that.
Success without truth isn't success. |
You're completely right, Steve. People write stuff like that -- hell, I nearly posted something like that -- because we're scared of how other people will judge us. We're afraid they'll judge us as harshly as we judge ourselves. We'll coach it in practicalities like 'keeping a job' or 'maintaining relationships', but the utter, blatant, blunt truth is that we're cowards. We'd rather stay in the dark than face the light. And when people like you come in with a flashlight, daring us to expose ourselves -- well, that sends us running.
Oddly enough, I'm going to stay. I'm staying because I know that I'm not strong enough to handle the rejection that I fear so much, and because perhaps if I hang around here enough, one day I will be. And maybe one day I will stop punishing myself for my mistakes and lapses of poor judgment. There's always hope.
