From the mind of critic: “If good things can feel bad and bad things can feel good, how do we decide what’s uplifting and what’s detrimental? If the truth hurts beyond words, yet ignorance breeds joy that’s indescribable, does being truthful with our feelings make us sadistic human beings that take pleasure in torturing ourselves? Or does being truthful hurt because it requires critical and pragmatic thought focused toward what we want, instead of staying in the comfortable cocoon of a rut we’ve built for ourselves, where we don’t have to think or act, only react to what others do? The truth hurts is such an old concept that all of us have experienced it at multiple times in our life whether because of something we did, or somebody else. Sometimes we shy away from our true feelings, because we’re scared of their outcomes. Sometimes we’re so close to acheiving something we want we can taste it, but once we’re truthful to and about ourselves, it pulls us further away. We then question whether we’re being truthful to ourselves by being honest about what we want, or are self-sabotaging this wonderful, awesome and amazing thing, because it’s only 85% of what we want. This is when we must question if that 15% of things overshadows, the 85% of things we love. Does this 15% of things include what drives us, what we’re passionate about, and what brings us the most joy? When 85% of something is amazing and the best thing that has happened to us in a long time, but does not include what we’re passionate about, nor the intellectual, philisopical, political, historical and bettering the world conversation that makes us excited and practically high, do we still do it? Life can be very tricky, meanings and definitions can quickly flip around. The truth might hurt, but the pain is only temporary, and gives way to long term joy. Critical thought and self-reflection is the only path forward. Unless we take a false path backward, once we discover what the truth actually is” 🙂