The Truth
Is it better for people to know the truth or is better for them to rot in the not knowing? Not knowing is bliss and knowing is suffering. Suffering that not everyone can endure. It is impossible to know the truth about everything all the time. Even the things that we think we know the truth about may be a misunderstanding that we only understand much after the fact. Do we protect people from suffering? Or do we let them be dumb? Supply their not knowing with a false comradery of seeming to not know ourselves. Knowing that what you know could shatter their world in a matter of seconds. Keep them stupid and happy. Smile like there is nothing going on and there never was and never will be. You are protecting their health. It is for the good of the whole that this person is being left in the dark. What you know though is that their eyes are searching, their eyes are searching your eyes for any hint of a spark. Any hint of a clue that their suspicions are true. You quickly glaze over that spark in your eyes with kindness, kindness for someone else's heart that you know is not strong enough to know. The thing is though... that they know, the thing inside that knows the truth knows. Out of the kindness of your heart you keep them in the dark because the light is actually painfully blinding. The light is actually a shade of darkness too troubling to see, the light is darkness exposed. The dark is comforting and warm like a mother’s womb. You don’t want to make things more than they need to be, you don’t want the blood on your hands. So everytime their eyes go searching you communicate there is nothing to fear. For fear of a fragile heart that might be shattered beyond repair. For fear that the truth will be too real and shockingly terrifying. They will know what they saw in your eyes when they were searching what you tried to glaze over with kindness.
Is it ok if you don’t tell someone what they should know because you know that they couldn't handle it? The truth will send some people flying off a cliff. I don’t want blood on my hands, I hope you understand.