Brutal honesty

There is actually no such thing as brutal honesty with other people.

 

The only person you can be brutally honest with is yourself.

 

Because in this world, we care too much about what other people think, want, discuss, feel, that we end up censoring ourselves. We end up with a make believer filter sitting right in front of us all the time that we speak into.

 

The only uncensored bunch of words that we talk is to ourselves. We beat ourselves up, we thrash ourselves around in our own self pity, we discuss hidden little secrets amongst our alter egos and plot and scheme and hatch little plans. We laugh with ourselves, we have fun. We speak honestly. We don't care about our feelings because it is ours. We know how fast we heal when we go through a tough patch, we know how to make ourselves feel better, we know exactly what is required for release. We know how to make a bad thing go away. And go away quickly. We know if we have arguments or confusing thoughts to work out and we sit there and think about it and sooner or later, we get around to something and we're able to make things all the more better for the sake of it.

 

As long as I have my hands around your throat, you're at my mercy.