Pachyderm in the Room

What do you do when it is after two in the morning and you can't sleep but you don't want to work on homework either as you should...apparently you blog! I think I may have developed a new addiction!

Anyways, yesterday I was watching the most recent episode of the TV show Bones and it had a premise that was radical honesty. There was a whole group of people who always told the truth. It talked about how even if you are choosing to omit the truth then technically you are lying. This got me thinking...what would it be like to live by radical honesty? What if I could just go up to the guy I like and say it flat out? What if I could call my dad up on the phone and tell him that he has missed out on over half of my life and that he should really regret it? What if I could be radically honest with myself? I don't know why but this was such an interesting concept to me! I thought about how it mentioned that when people tell the truth all of the time they come off abrasive. But sometimes I feel as if I am missing out because I can't seem to tell someone something that I really want to.

Then again, I sort of tried this once! I told the guy that I liked how I liked him and his response was..."I know." And then he walked off. It took me five long hard years to get over that particular guy too! So...I guess the moral here is that we can lie to ourselves which probably hurts us...or we can tell the truth, which can also hurt us! Hmm...depressing thought!

"The lingering question kept me up
2am, who do you love?
I wonder till I'm wide awake
Now I'm pacing back and forth, wishing you were at my door

Please don't be in love with someone else
Please don't have somebody waiting on you"