Can You Hear The Truth?
The truth speaks in our actions, choices, and decisions, and the aware ones can hear it.
I was listening to a male and a female talking.
“I am sorry,” the male begged.
“No, you are not,” the female quickly throws back.
“How can you tell?”
“Because what you just did, is something you do all of the time. And I guarantee you will repeat your actions next week or next month. Thoughtlessness and cruelty are a habit for you.”
His silence pulled my ear, and I eased closer.
He sighed, then released, “I don’t know what else to say, but I am still sorry.”
“I am not sorry you did what you did,” she shared.
“Why not?”
“By your action, you are telling me the truth about how you feel.”
“What!” he almost shouts.
“You are aware of what you are saying, so lying is easy. You aren’t aware of what you did until after the deed is done. So your actions are speaking the truth. Your words aren’t.”
He glared at her in knotted brows, gulping his anger.
She went on, “many of us don’t think deep enough to realize that the truth doesn’t have to plan what to say. Lies have to.”
“So because I wasn’t aware of my actions, it tells you the truth about how I feel?”
“Yes,” she agreed. “Humans can’t plan the truth. The truth demands freedom. Many will try and put it in shackles and hide it. But someone always knows.”
He sighed heavily and said, “I refused to be in a relationship with someone who can read my actions and interpret them their way.”
“I thought you wanted the truth?” She questioned.
“Yea, I do,” he said, his thought seeming far away. “But if I am not aware of it, I will be in trouble,” he complains.
“How can you not be aware of something that you said you want? Or do you want your truth?”
A true story inspired this piece.
Kindness is involuntary for some of us. So are cruelty and thoughtlessness. The truth speaks in our actions, choices, and decisions, and the aware ones can hear it.
Can you hear the TRUTH?
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