Honesty is refreshing. Or at least it's meant to be. Every so often someone says something or does something that makes you get up and pay attention and look at yourself. That's through honesty. We go through life day by day in a kind of a trance. People lie to us and we keep on going like we have been for every day in our internal little lives . Then when someone finally tells us the honest to god truth and we recognize what we've been doing how we've been behaving or what a massive mistake we've been making. Honesty is refreshing because it's like taking an ice cold morning swim at 6.30 in the morning. It seems like the worst thing at the time. I start gasping for air before my head is under water. Then the icy chill moves up through my body and before I know it I'm drowning and I'm faced with a decision. Keep on swimming or give up to the cold comforting water. For some unknown reason I always keep on swimming. I fight against that temperature which makes my limbs contract and resemble chickens feet. My mother says that I reason I keep on going after I've been knocked down is because I'm resilient. I think it's just that basic survival instinct which is coded into every part of my double helix DNA. Next thing I know I'm on the boat again. I survived it and now I've got another view of the world in my repertoire.
Honesty cleans me.
From the inside out.
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