Accepting the Truth

Let's be real. The truth is what everyone wants, right? A free and clear path of open communication and transparency. The ability to come forward with a feeling, or a thought; the ability to openly express oneself to another seems quite simple, right? Being THAT honest, however, isn't as easy as the vast majority may think, or are led to believe. Honesty, is a really difficult choice to make, for many of people, for an abundance of different reason. A very heavy, but life altering choice. Being honest can hurt or change the dynamic of any situation. It can expose the truth, expose a situation for what is real versus what isn't, for some. For others, it can become a deeply messy war, due to exposure, or an "enlightening." For the 'lucky" or "fortunate" ones, its a segue, or clearer path, to the next phase. Its harmony, a sense of release, and prosperity. Truth isn't as simplistic as the ideal itself may seem. It causes harm, and frustration no matter what. Because the person receiving the unspoken truth(s), that may be living it, or experiencing it, still has to deal with the impending or unforeseen consequences, or circumstances, thereafter. While the person speaking it, feels better, or relieved, that the burdening weight of what needed to be said, or shown, is no longer in a bad space, spiritually, or otherwise.
Have you ever experienced a significant event(s) that changed the course of your day, week, month, year, or just life, in general? Have you ever experienced one moment that changes your view or feelings about someone or something? A change so significant that it alters your way of thinking, living, or even simple functionality? Has there ever been a moment in your life that you wish you could go back and revisit? Maybe change, or reroute? Living, day to day, thinking about one moment, one incident, one situation, becomes a torment, a prison, a barrier. It becomes a nuisance, or an illness that you want to get rid of, but just can’t. Something that you can no longer live with, but fear to live without, or part from, because the outcome of doing so may be completely different than what you picture in your mind. No matter how wrong it was, it was the truth, but you were silenced. Even though, it was taught, and reitterated, that being honest is the only way to move successfully in the world. Funnily enough, I am grateful for this though. That one moment, that one event, that one memory, completely changed the course and direction of my life, my future, my purpose. My intentions, now, are not NEARLY the same, as they were, then. It forever holds a huge space in my mind. BUT, because of it, my life has been and unimaginable roller coaster of triumph, pain, frustration, happiness, discomfort, and renewed faith, hope, and love.
I am my own hero. I am HER. I am a survivor