Silent Treatment...Or Face Front?

 

A question: What's worse? Silent treatment or having someone lay it on the line knowing that change is coming and everyone will just have to deal?

If only it were that simple.

People hate change. They don't want their ideas threatened. They find a comfortable level of acceptability within the routine patterns of life and say "Look, I already know important things. This is far enough, thank you."

If the past four years have taught me anything, it's that life seldom lets us sleep in blissful ignorance. Growth of any kind rarely occurs under pleasant circumstances; Puberty, heartbreak, coming to grips with our own mortality...The list goes on. This is the meaning of the phrase "Order from Chaos". A person who takes the banal & ordinary, and illuminates it in a new way can be terrifying. We as a species do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands, and tend to revile those who bring them to our doorsteps.
 
I have always preferred to KNOW rather than to ASSUME. I have discovered that denying the existence of the truth won't make it disappear, and what you don't know can indeed hurt you. In fact, it can fucking kill you.

How may times have you heard the phrase, "Hmnnn, well...How can I put this?" You know that guy is trying like hell to be politic and buttery, and the odds of him ever getting within a parsec of the fucking point are roughly seven hundred and eighty three million to one.

People call me cynical and blunt - this is true, and I come by my pessimism honestly. But sugar-coating something just to take the sting out never works for me. I have seen people get to the point where they prefer the sugar over the sting, when it's the sting that really teaches us.