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Are you honest with yourself?

Well... are you? How honest?

Posted - December 10, 2016

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  • 7792
    I don't think so. Is this a trick question?
      December 10, 2016 10:17 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Hehehehe!

    Nope. Enquiring minds want to know. Well...just this one, I guess!

    Thank you for your reply, Zack! And your honesty!
      December 10, 2016 10:23 PM MST
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  • 7939
    I probably lie to myself about the same things everyone else does.

      December 10, 2016 10:44 PM MST
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  • 10052
    I think I'm more honest than most. I do NOT recommend it!!!

      December 10, 2016 10:47 PM MST
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  • Ummm... How do you know?


     What you see and hear and think and feel is filtered through your own upbringing ...
      December 11, 2016 3:20 AM MST
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  • 10052
    Good question. I suppose you know when those  around you agree with your self-assessments. Or your therapist announces you're "all better now", maybe? Hehe.

    Your second statement is very true, too. Those and other factors as well.

    Thanks for replying!
      December 11, 2016 8:36 AM MST
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  • 5354
    I try to be, but I often find instances where I was not. It is a very easy trap to fall into :(
      December 11, 2016 3:59 AM MST
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  • 10052
    This is true. Learning from these instances is progress, though. Thanks for replying!
      December 11, 2016 8:38 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Probably not because I lie to everybody else.
      December 11, 2016 4:09 AM MST
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  • 10052
    Well, at least you're honest about being a liar! Thanks for replying!
      December 11, 2016 8:29 AM MST
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  • 46117
    Yes.  Otherwise myself knows I am lying. 
      December 11, 2016 8:41 AM MST
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  • 3934
    Perhaps more so than is strictly healthy....;-D....
      December 11, 2016 8:46 AM MST
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  • 110
    90 percent of people are never honest with their self. It a fact. I am honest with myself. I know what will happen if not. 
      December 11, 2016 8:49 AM MST
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  • 7280
    "Know thyself"---one of the Delphic maxims

    Why would I ever want to be dishonest if I am trying to know myself?
      December 11, 2016 9:06 AM MST
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  • 10052
    Hoping you are well somewhere!
      July 4, 2021 9:17 PM MDT
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  • 17601
    Yes. 
      December 11, 2016 11:29 AM MST
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  • 110
    Thank you sister, you are a blessing 
      December 11, 2016 12:42 PM MST
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  • 53509

     

      I learned long ago that personally, my best inner policy is don‘t ask, don’t tell, so I don’t ask myself anything that I don’t want to know, and I don’t self-volunteer any unsolicited information. What I don’t reveal to myself about me won’t kill me. The less I know about me, the better. See that guy over there, the one in the mirror, don’t stick my nose into my own business if I know what’s good for me.  Half the stuff I tell myself about me can’t be relied on, and the other half can’t be verified. I don’t even think about myself without wondering if I’m wearing a wire, and if so, I sure do want to know who I’m working for to bleed info from me about me to me fir for me. I was going to do some soul-searching, but without a warrant, I didn’t have legal grounds, so I backed off. There’s got to be a gag order on the voices in my head, but it’s ok anyway, I don’t speak the same language that they do. I can’t convince myself to persuade me to follow my own advice on what I know is good for me in my own best interests. I’ve told myself time and time again that I’ve told myself time and time again. If it matters what’s the matter, what matters is that matter, in sort of a matter-of-fact manner. I think the way I like and I like the way I think. This is all a bunch of circularly illogical logic that logistically revolves around orbital rotations of rotund and profoundly profuse prognorations . . . (this therapist sure has nice legs) . . .

    This post was edited by Randy D at August 26, 2020 7:36 PM MDT
      August 26, 2020 12:05 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    Wow. 

    Don't tell yourself this, but Savvy is sending prayers and good vibes your way. 

    )
      August 26, 2020 3:56 PM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      I don’t know who she is. 

    ~

      August 26, 2020 7:32 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    Irrelevant. 
      August 26, 2020 7:49 PM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      Just think, I don’t take prescription drugs, I’ve don’t take non-prescription drugs, I don’t smoke anything, I don’t inject myself, I don’t imbibe in alcohol or beer, I don’t do peyote or ‘shrooms’ or edibles or any other wacky substances, I’ve never been committed to a mental hospital, etc., yet I still post lines like those right off the top of my head and at the spur of the moment. I’m as sane as you are.

    LoL!


    ~

      November 12, 2022 11:06 PM MST
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