The Art of Wearing Masks: Honesty

This'll be much more the hypothetical-type journal, but it's something that came to my attention earlier. Let me throw a new mask out there... honesty. Is it possible to use honesty as a mask?

I believe in some cases it is possible. Hiding behind honesty as a means of getting something that you want. For instance, say there's someone you're interested in, and you start telling them things going with the line of thinking "I'm just being honest." Really, what you're doing is telling them the truth and being up front about your honesty, hoping that it'll make you look like a better person for being truthful, or hoping that it'll stun them into liking you back. Or using honesty as a means to get someone to trust you so that you can wrap them around your finger. After all, it's not often when a person will question someone they trust.

Don't ever do that, by the way. Never, ever use honesty for such a selfish reason. Because it can and will hurt the person on the receiving end. But don't think to use deception either.

It's much more difficult to wear honesty as a mask, because the nature of masks is dishonesty. It was just something I thought I'd touch base on, to let people know that it is possible. I've done it before. Just a little bit.... I would delve into the story, but it's still much too personal for me to disclose to everyone. All I can say is that my intentions were apparent the whole time. He and I both knew it, but I proceeded anyway because not only was it the last night I'd be seeing him for an undetermined amount of time, but there was also something extremely liberating about that level of honesty.

And let me tell you all something, it's better by far to use honesty as just that, so that when you look back on that memory you'll be able to recall it without it being tainted by anything else. And that—that level of honesty—is something that shouldn't ever be tainted, because it's the best feeling in the world knowing you can be completely open with someone and not have to worry about what they'll do with what you've told them.

And I think that's it for my ramblings on this one.