The Art of Communication

I've got more than I could ever handle on my mind this weeks, which sucks especially because finals are right around the corner and I can't focus on anything. What I can't stop thinking about have been inspired by some pretty sucky recent events, all coming from a lack of communication. One of the questions we had to answer in class this semester is "is it okay to lie?" I know I said that it depends on the situation, but now being on the other side of it all i take it back. If something's on your mind, SAY IT. It takes the time and pain out of what happens when you put it off until later. Sure, you don't want to hurt feeling because you're a good person, but delaying the obvious hurts that other person more because of the fact that it is being delayed. Recently I've had someone tell me, "you don't need to worry about a thing; everything's fine." Obviously not. Why is it that much easier today to put off the obvious? Us as a society have regressed to taking the easy way out, or changing the means of our words to not cut too deeply sometimes. We choose our words, rather, our rhetoric, wisely as to not hurt someone. But how far does that rhetoric get us, really? Why can't we say how we feel, no strings attached? In my instance, I knew something was up for a couple weeks..things just felt sketchy. Which stressed me out because I didn't know what the hell was going on. So, as an ardent believer in communication (past relationships have shown me that when something doesn't get talked about, it festers), I brought up the situation at hand. I was then told millions of times that everything's okay. Why take the easy way out?! Here I am a couple weeks later finding out what I should have weeks ago. The art of communication is seriously messed up today. Have we as a society become so lazy that even being morally correct and honest are out of the question? Is it really that much more efficient to tell a few lies to pass the time? No. What we need to remember is the importance of honesty. Sure, the truth hurts, but lies kill. Hearing those rhetoric "comfort phrases" such as "it's fine" and "don't worry" give us some serious setbacks. Be honest people.