Radical Honesty

I bumped into the term “radical honesty” the other day.

I wondered: What is that?

Radical honesty, I discovered as I drilled down, is quite simply telling the honest and brutal truth at all times.   While you might think this is a brilliant way to live, practitioners of this often leave in their wake a lot of bruised and disillusioned people.  At a certain point (constant) honest criticism will be perceived as an attack.  You cannot always be radically honest and polite at the same time.    

Love often requires a blind eye or a white lie.

I don’t want to be radically honest if it hurts.  So I give you this: “You are all looking lovely this morning!”

—Mitchell Hegman