Dave wrote a letter from his mission in Argentina last week & included this:
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"She [a woman they are teaching] got really sick this week (she's a diabetic and very obese) which has caused some problems (I can say that she's obese because I'm in Argentina and its not bad manners to tell things how they are)."
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Sometimes I wish that I lived in Argentina, where you don't have to worry about being politically correct or softening the truth, & being blatantly honest is not perceived as a negative thing. Wouldn't it be better if we just all had open & honest relationships with the people we come into contact with in whatever circumstances? It would take care of a lot of the guessing games- in dating, in the professional arena, within families. If we could not worry about offending someone with simple honesty, I wonder what life would be like.
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Just something super random I'm thinking about.
1 comment:
Honesty...tempered with love.....That's a true art. Sometimes the truth is better left unsaid because once words fly they cannot be taken back.
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