Truth, Freedom, Language, Purity And Tolerance.........Stephen Fry

This afternoon while I was driving into town I heard this quote or part of a quote by Stephen Fry.

"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the alter of language and purity and tolerance".

I liked it so much that again I pulled the car off of the road and wrote it down before I forgot it.  I thought about for these words for quite a while.  I am a lover of truth, even though there are some people I don't risk being truthful with.  This past weekend I was able to tell the truth to a person that I really wanted and needed to and it wasn't difficult, in fact it came naturally and easy.  Sometimes telling the truth isn't possible because you don't really know the truth yourself, that was the case in this instance.  Other times telling the truth is to scary, especially for children.  I told my truths as a child and was not believed, even worse was told that I was lying or making things up.  When you do that to a child something happens to them and they begin to doubt their own truths.
As an adult I want to tell my truths as often as possible and not for any moral reasons but because I feel better, I sleep better, I even breathe better.

Lies of omission are much more difficult, at least to me. Not long ago I had a friend ask me if she looked good in a red dress she had purchased.  She didn't, but rather than say that I told her that I really liked the blue dress, that blue really looked good on her.  I guess that that is a lie of omission but one that does no one any harm.  It still surprises me that anyone ever asks me anything about fashion or clothing, as I have no interest in either.  If I like you I would probably think that you look good in sack cloth, more than likely I would never notice what you wearing.  My own criteria for dressing is "is it clean and does it fit".  I guess that is how much fashion and clothing interests me.  We are all different and isn't that a good thing.  I wanted to write about Freedom, Language, Purity and Tolerance but they will be different topics for different days.

Manana

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011............10:23p.m.