Honesty is kinder than niceness. You've learned hard things before, so you can learn anything else the same way. Look back at what you've already mastered to see what's possible ahead.
The pain of the initial hurt that helps will eventually go away, and then you get to live with the benefit from now on. But if you don't tell them and you want to be helpful right on the front end, you don't tell. Dude, you have slobber on your face. You don't tell them. Dude, you really need to, like, chuck down some mints right now, right? If you don't tell them that you're being nice but you're not being kind, and I'd rather be kind and tell the truth than nice and just lie to people and make them feel good about disaster. If we desire to understand how easy everything is or how doable, maybe not even easy how doable everything is for us, all we have to do is look in the rearview mirror of our life and know that when we landed on this planet, we couldn't do anything for ourselves. All of the things that we've already mastered ought to let us know there's nothing we can't learn.
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