Envision
this guy named "Truth" running toward you with a big
gunnysack of treasures over his shoulders. You don't receive
them. You keep running. And he keeps following you.
We avoid
the truth, yet it keeps following us wherever we go trying to
give us freedom from whatever it is we're avoiding. And it keeps
chasing. And we keep running.
We hold
back from telling the truth for fear of their reactions, for
fear of looking foolish, for fear of upsetting, for fear of
losing. And our ego often wants to MASK the truth (tell
our Opinions
instead of the truth).
When
we hold back from telling the truth, we "retard"
what needs to naturally happen. This is a common game in relationships.
"She'd leave me if she knew that about me!"
Well if she would choose to leave, then it needs to happen
sooner than later. Your holding back the truth only delays
the inevitable. Let the truth set you free my friend.
We don't
ASK for what we want, and so then we don't get what
we want. And of course, then we get upset at "out
there" for not giving us what we want!
When we
avoid telling the truth for fear of upsetting them, we're later
on the golf course complaining to our buddies about how we just
can't "be ourselves" (that was me!).
We don't
talk about who we are, what we want, and what's important to
us, for fear that we won't be heard, we'll look foolish, or
they wont care. And so we then miss out on the level of intimacy
that we were created to enjoy.
WEW! That's
alotta stuff! But my friends, AWARENESS of how we're keeping
away what it is that we want is such an important first base
to getting something different tomorrow.
