My... Right
There's no more fun in being right anymore. I always thought that truth in itself would be a delightful thing. That people sought after truth. That truth in its purest and most concrete form would banish all lies. Why then does it seem that now, the more truthful you become, the more the lies seem to shout louder?
As Christians we are told to "speak the truth in love" but then it seems that nowadays, truth is only chiefly concerned with hurting someone, or tearing them down, or only spoken when it affects you directly. Is that the way things are supposed to be? On the flipside though, why does it seem that people these days are so afraid to change? To accept constructive criticism?
I guess a lot of it has to do with my previous thought. They are so used to the fact that truth is used as a weapon that they assume that everything people say which is true about them is going to be used sooner or later to attack them. Sigh. I. Don't. Know. Anymore.
So where does that leave us then? How are we to reach a generation of people who have so twisted ideas about truth, honesty, about friendship? I always thought being a true friend meant that you genuinely cared for that person and would be willing to "rock the boat" so to speak, when you see your friend spiralling out of control, or you see him/her doing something which might be detrimental down the line.
On a side note, I am really excited about Windows 7. I have been playing around with the Beta quite a bit (in-fact I installed it on my sister's laptop and its now her primary OS and things seem ok. At this point in time, its even better than Vista. Though I still prefer Mac OS X (no danger in me uhm "backsliding" :P) but still I'm glad that PC users will finally have a good alternative or at least I hope nothing goes seriously wrong with it from now till its released.
As Christians we are told to "speak the truth in love" but then it seems that nowadays, truth is only chiefly concerned with hurting someone, or tearing them down, or only spoken when it affects you directly. Is that the way things are supposed to be? On the flipside though, why does it seem that people these days are so afraid to change? To accept constructive criticism?
I guess a lot of it has to do with my previous thought. They are so used to the fact that truth is used as a weapon that they assume that everything people say which is true about them is going to be used sooner or later to attack them. Sigh. I. Don't. Know. Anymore.
So where does that leave us then? How are we to reach a generation of people who have so twisted ideas about truth, honesty, about friendship? I always thought being a true friend meant that you genuinely cared for that person and would be willing to "rock the boat" so to speak, when you see your friend spiralling out of control, or you see him/her doing something which might be detrimental down the line.
On a side note, I am really excited about Windows 7. I have been playing around with the Beta quite a bit (in-fact I installed it on my sister's laptop and its now her primary OS and things seem ok. At this point in time, its even better than Vista. Though I still prefer Mac OS X (no danger in me uhm "backsliding" :P) but still I'm glad that PC users will finally have a good alternative or at least I hope nothing goes seriously wrong with it from now till its released.
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