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Bitter, like the truth
Reza Babaei
It has been said: “The work of an intellectual is to tell the truth and reduce bitterness, and if the task comes to a choice between the two, the intellectual should prefer telling the truth over reducing bitterness.”
I have faced this dilemma many times: telling the bitter truth or hiding the sweet truth? Sometimes I am stuck between the truth and the interest of myself or the audience and I don’t know what to do. The truth is sometimes extremely bitter and it takes a certain cruelty to pour it into someone else’s palate. It is difficult to hide it and even more difficult to express it. Most likely, many others have had the same problem with us.
In high school, we had a wise teacher who I advised her several times and asked her to think more and choose the right path! Along with his noble and oppressed look, he used to say: “Eyes.” I think more. You also ask God to guide me.” Sometimes he would say something that was hard for us to bear, but he was not one to argue. He probably knew that
“Any inner person who became a fantasist
If the reason is yes, he is overthinking.”
He and many people around us prefer reducing our bitterness over telling the truth.
Because they don’t know the value of truth more than our easy mind.
What is the meaning of stating what we know to be true for someone who cannot bear to face it? Imagine if your old mother lived her whole life believing in them. If you take his belief away from him, he will collapse and break like glass from a stone attack.
If we have a friend whose whole being is filled with love for someone, do we have the right to throw down the dish of scandal of his lover from the roof of the revelation? This revelation may open his eyes, but it will definitely break his heart, squeeze his soul, and bleed his brain (if he accepts it, of course).
I have a young friend who is extremely fascinated by one of the historical figures and will do anything to revive his name and memory. A few years ago, an encyclopedia was published, which had an entry about that historical figure, and that entry considered the existence of that figure to be the handiwork of the Safavids, and there were many proofs and witnesses for this claim. How many times I wanted to tell that young friend that such an article exists. I could not I didn’t doubt his thoughts and beliefs, but I can see that for him, this pool is a swamp that has drowned a part of his abilities and capital.
Maybe in order to save from these two sad ways, it is better not to take the conversation beyond the generalities and leave the details and examples to the individuals themselves. I don’t know.
Book out of turn, contemporary look
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