The scarcest quality on Earth
People are not perfect. Or at least I never met anyone perfect, either man or woman. I obviously include myself as well.
People are not perfect, but even so each person has a set of qualities. Some of them fade in time, e.g. physical beauty, while other remain or even improve during lifetime.
An interesting human quality is honesty. I’m not talking about the kind of honesty that restrains you from robbing a bank. That helps of course, but it’s not the one I mean.
The honesty I’m talking about (maybe it’s not the best choice of word in English) involves truthfullness and fairness, especially when relating to other persons. It’s about telling what you think and what you feel. About not pretending to be someone else or any better that you really are. About being, not appearing.
Truthfullness is the single quality I appreciate most in people, especially in a woman.
Sadly, this quality seems to be the scarcest on Earth. Yes, sadly. Definitely sadly.
on August 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Steering slightly from “being, not appearing” and thinking about honesty in human behavior, I can theorize that some people are not ‘honest’ also because they fear the other person’s reaction. Sometimes they assume that an excuse for a certain behavior will be better accepted than the truth. This might be a terribly wrong assumption: I think that truth encourages understanding, sympathy and trust on both parts, and not everybody reacts the same way to a given situation (but most people seem to ignore this fact). In my way of thinking, honesty from the other person greatly motivates me to try walking in their shoes even in the worst cases. I could make dozens of examples but it would be too personal for a public blog
on August 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Thanks Cougar, I’d say you truly completed my post, grasping its exact spirit and my exact feelings…