The whole politically correct way of thinking has polluted us. We have become so determined not to offend someone that we have completely let go of our own values. I have discovered in my life that it is far better to say what you really mean than to beat around the bush and placate someone’s ego. If I like you, you know it and likewise if I don’t you will also know it. My friends all like that quality about me. They never have to wonder what it is I am trying to say. I am ready to give my opinion on any given subject and am not afraid of getting my feelings hurt—though sometimes the truth does hurt. I am not one to hold a grudge about a person expressing their opinion and do not get the concept. When I see something that is wrong, I have before hurt myself to prove a point. What I mean by that is that I will stand on a principal that I believe strongly all the way…I am flexible though and if I am shown that my way of thinking is wrong, I will change my perspective—I am not France though! Sometimes, it is not about who is right, but standing up for my values and being willing to take peripheral damage as a result. Where would we be as a people if we had been candy coating the truth? We would probably all be speaking pure German or Russian by now…for clarification English is a Germanic derivative language as opposed to being a romance—Latin—language. I guess the bottom line is, let’s stop being so supersensitive when someone says something. Odds are they did not really say anything false; they just have an issue with finesse. Really, when was the last time you heard the unadulterated truth? It probably was something you really needed to hear and may not have been understood had it not been done that way. I guess what I am really trying to say is that I am not interested in someone being my friend because I know how to flatter them, but would rather someone like me for who I am.
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Ah Christopher, we are so much alike, but then again we already knew that LOL. I think that is one of the reasons we get along so well, we tell it the way we see it, not uncaring what people feel, but simply stating the truth and not doing it in the "politically correct" way. Neither of us giving up our own principles, but also being flexible when we are proven wrong and changing our perspectives. We may seem very stubborn at times, but that is because we know who we are and what it is that we believe and stand for. That is something that not a lot of people do in this day and age.
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