Change - A Writing Prompt from October 2009

If I could change one thing about myself, I would change my honesty. I find it easier to be honest with strangers than with myself. I accept too much work and overburden myself. I tell people the truth that we don’t want to hear or know to be true, we just find it not politically correct. This in turn makes me come off as an asshole. A man has no clue about the world because I don’t want to follow the rules. I then get so caught up with all of these petty arguments that I don’t finish any of my work.

If I could change one thing about the world, I would change that what we say to one another. Cut out all the spin and BS that makes up most of our conversations and have us talk honestly to each other. I don’t see anything wrong with telling people what is on your mind so long as it is the truth. We censor ourselves so much that it creates this underlying tension in the smallest of situations. We become paranoid that everyone has a hidden agenda or is trying to hide something from us.

If I were to change then I wouldn’t worry about all this BS that I deal with at work and outside of work. I could focus on my novel and hopefully enough people would read it and realize that there is nothing wrong with telling the people that we interact with, the truth. Or nothing would change and I am just a loon. Who knows, but why are we afraid to find out?