Sometimes I feel like an alien in today’s world. I was raised to be honest by honest people. I was raised to be truthful with my personal actions, thoughts and opinions. That’s not consistent with the world we live in. We live in a time where society has become more sensitive; the truth depends on what’s politically correct. We live in a world where leagues don’t keep score in youth competitions because they don’t want the losing team’s feelings to get hurt. As my Grandmother (RIP) used to say, “The truth is the light”, and some of us need to be truthful with ourselves when it comes to our physical shape and appearance.
Whether the relationship is a marriage, courtship, parent – child, or siblings, people have an issue with being real about one another’s physical shape. For example, women, why do you ask your mates how you look when clearly you know you have fallen off physically? If you're told the truth your feelings get hurt, so lies are told. Does that lie make you feel better? You know before anyone else when your body is changing. So why ask questions you don’t want to hear honest answers to? Men and women do the same thing. A lot of times people ask questions to feed their egos rather than to hear the truth. The sad thing is that if more people were more open and honest about each other’s physical shape, the obesity rate wouldn’t be so high in our country.
When our sugar-addicted children are gaining weight and heading toward obesity, parents don’t want to say anything because it might hurt the child’s feelings. What’s more hurtful, letting a child’s health decline because you’re afraid to hurt his/her feelings, or telling them the truth so the proper changes can be made to get or stay healthy?
Each morning take an honesty look in the mirror. You know your mental and physical strengths and weaknesses better than anyone else. Accept how you look and accept that the responsibility is yours and yours alone if you want to change. Tell others the truth, but not out of a spiteful or malicious state of mind, yet from a place of love because you truly care about them and their well-being. It is our responsibility to keep ourselves healthy. Don’t be the person that only accepts that you need to make a change once you are in the doctor’s office. Be proactive for yourself and loved ones so that doesn’t become their reality.
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