One of the things that Ive noticed today in society is that everyone has a problem with the truth. I dont mean we walk around lying all the time, but we are always afraid of hurting someones feelings or becoming entangled in some sort of confrontation with the person we are speaking with or better yet the person were living with. Sometimes we are concerned about someones reaction to us so we bend the truth or poke around trying to figure out what that person wants to hear. It really starts to become a problem in personal relationships when couples are afraid to make their desires known for fear of a break-up or a divorce. People can have a problem with the truth on the job, when a supervisor might worry about an employees reaction to a poor performance evaluation; in education a teacher might be worried about a students or parents reaction, and then could easily award grades that are not in line with the students performance.
When I was in high school my guidance counselor called me down to his office and pulled out my grades. He said, What do you want to do when youre through with high school? I told him that I didnt know, and then in the next breath, thinking that I...