Honesty

A friend of mine recently recommended House of Cards as my new show to binge watch over vacation. I started watching it and, although some aspects of the show make me cringe and just plain piss me off, I can't stop watching because of the curious way that the characters interact. There is a level of brutal honesty in the show that is hard to come by in real life. The characters are just as human as the people I see in real life, but they don't hide it. Honesty is hard to come by. If we were to rate humanity on some sort of moral scale, would we be quicker to judge the person that is honestly evil or the person who lies to try to come off as pure? In the end, we are all the same. If a certain person seems to be good, maybe it's only because that person is dishonest and has simply done a better job at covering up the unwanted characteristics. I recently chose to be brutally honest about my life. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do and I suffer from the consequences even today, but, if I had lied, would I truly be living a better life or would I simply be delaying the inevitable and pretending to live a life that doesn't actually exist? There is always that one person that is brave enough to say what everyone else is thinking, but, if everyone else is thinking it, then it has already been said. We might as well be honest about it and voice it out loud. One way or another, in some shape of form, the truth will always rise to the surface; it's just a matter of when you admit it and how you respond to it.