Three pointers while practising honest communication:
1. It is the nature of honesty to sometimes work and sometimes backfire. It’s like a business risk. Either ways it’s worth it because it always works out in the long term.
2. While we spoke of truth and honesty, it’s important to remember that love and sensitivity are supremely important too. Try and find a way to be honest in a sensitive way. In short do your best to not throw love out of the window when being honest. Sometimes you can sometimes you can’t. Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t. Besides sometimes brutal honesty can do wonders for both parties that sensitive honesty can’t.
3. Do not use honesty as an excuse for throwing your negativity on others and also to wallow in complaints. Learn to transmute your negativity rather than indulge in it in the name of honest communication. Nor should one expect others to put up with him or her simply because one is ‘honest’ (even if one is talking crap/throwing negativity quite often).
