Why do you think is it so difficult to be completely honest with yourself?

Answer 1

I think one of the hardest things for people in general to do is to take a deep down look at themselves......warts and all. It can be painful to look inside of ourselves. We tend to push down bad feelings and memories and when you are completely honest with yourself, you have to look at the good and the bad and deal with both. It is important to be honest with ourselves, because if we can't be , how can we expect anyone else to be with us?

Answer 2

It's difficult to be completely honest with yourself because you know that you'll have to face the music and do the work to make yourself a better person. It's like my husband always reminds me, a person thinks that once they learn something, they believe it's the end of learning but it's not because life is an ongoing lesson and life is a process. A person lives in stages and they believe that who they grew up to be, that's who they have to be but a person has a different personality with every stage of life and every person in their life. For each part, you have to learn about who you are, what's your faults, & what you're doing right and to most people this is more than they can handle especially with what's going on in the world, their kids' lives, their marriage, etc. which can cause more stress and complete honesty with yourself about the things you see and the way others may act.
Again, you don't want to be completely honest with yourself because you'll have to keep investing in yourself and those around you which can drive people away. Honesty and truth drives people away because their afraid of what the unknown holds and where it'll lead them. That's not the way it's supposed to be but there it is. People don't remember that 'honesty is the best policy'. It drives other people away because when you get a new way of thinking, people are still in their classic opinions (the opinions they grew up believing) while you now have a versatile opinion (a new and different perspective opinion) which people aren't ready to accept even if it's the truth.

Answer 3

It's difficult to be honest with oneself (about somethings) because we want to do whatever we want to sometimes.

Such as: maybe a woman really wants to feel special and a guy at work is great to her and exciting. She has an affair. She tells herself that it's because her husband is boring and never takes her anywhere but the problem is in her...Life isn't about being excited all the time and if you need someone else to make your life exciting, that's also your problem.

Or, let's say everytime you eat ice cream you have to go out and have it with an entire pizza. You know that this is your MO but you tell yourself that it's comfort food. It's not comforting to make yourself sick eating a half gallon of ice cream and an entire pizza. You're lying to yourself because you don't want to dig and work on the real problem--which is within.

It's scary and difficult.

Answer 4

i don't think of its complicated for every physique to be basic. i'm an rather basic person... I even have been instructed i'm brutally basic. I even have harm peoples feeling on celebration not intentionally of path, yet i might extremely be basic than attempt to make somebody chuffed. i think of a few human beings merely choose for to not be basic.

Answer 5

I am honest with myself; I just don' t tell anyone else everything.

Answer 6

because so many want to live in a false joy people should learn to embrace a painful truth