Voltare -> RE: Why Can't People Be Honest? (2/2/2004 11:11:06 AM)
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I dodged this post for a while, not wanting to speak too much on it, as I'd recently had a similar issue that hit too close to home. In the end, we can hide in caves, blocking everyone and everything out from our lives to protect ourselves from those who might hurt us. It's a lonely life, but safe from emotional turmoil. Or, we can choose to come out of those caves, and interact with other people - knowing full well we WILL get hurt - and in letting in the bad, we are free to enjoy, and hopefully appreciate the good things in our lives. Online, we have several tools at our disposal to 'check out' a person, in ways that we cannot even really do in real life. We can detect early on small lies that lead to bigger ones, such as age, appearence, and living situation with the help of a search engine (which is how I found out a woman I had been close to for over a year online had been dishonest with me on hte majority of what she had told me.) In real life, we don't know at a glance if the man or woman buying us a drink isn't really a con artist, or spiking our drink, or casing us for snatching our wallet. In real life, the lies are a little more difficult to track. Love life. and love those around you. When you find others lied to be closer to you, because they don't love themselves, accept it graciously, and move on with life. Move on to the next dance, and don't hold back! If you do, you will regret it. If you don't hold back, then you will find the right person/people to share your life with. Stephan
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