The Truth About Truth

So you want the truth? You can’t handle the truth! Literally, you probably can’t handle the truth. Does that mean we shouldn’t tell it?

As stated in my past posts I have lost 50 lbs of fat and put on 20lbs of muscle and still going. I am constantly getting “I don’t want to sound gay, but you look really good” from guys, and “Wow! You look really different” from girls. Where did my motivation come from? The truth!

Ever since I first started getting fat people made fun of me. I knew I was fat because “the mean kids” said I was. It’s funny that the mean kids were the most helpful. The problem came from the nice kids, the ones who when I said I was fat or asked if I was fat they would reply with some crap like “No, fat to me is like the people who are obese and have health problems and stuff” or the always nice “no you look fine.”

But does anyone want to look fine? No, everyone wants to look great. Our society doesn’t buy $85 Polo shirts or spend hundreds on coach purses to look fine. Fine is wearing sweatpants and an old t-shirt to go through the drive through at McDonalds. These nice people weren’t helping me. They were lolling me into a false sense of satisfaction and apathy about the way I looked and who I was. Deep down inside I wasn’t happy with who I was.

Ultimately the truth came when I tried to squeeze that XL shirt around my 5”11 245lb frame and realized that all those “mean kids” were just telling the truth.
Truth is a weird thing with a lot of twists to it. I’m not trying to say everyone should be jerks to each other. My goal with this post is just to have you rethink how and when the truth is appropriate.

This is a great article I read awhile back about truth(Warning: explicit language)- http://tinyurl.com/2h3mfb