You expect people to be honest with you, but have you been honest with yourself lately?

“Honest” is a mutable concept. Your premise is flawed, unless you mean “facts” for “honesty”, in which case there is still not an answer, as “facts”, in such a subjective scenario, are mostly based on perception anyway.
You need to clarify.

Asking the deep questions! I like it, stick around, won’t you?

Between my recent hospitalization and the election, I have had to, and have done, some major soul searching over the last week. I am reaching out to people I’ve had petty arguments with to apologize. I’m ready to stop being mean entirely because there’s too much of that in the world now. I only want to contribute positivity.

I think I was having some trouble with being true to myself recently, but I’ve been shocked to hell and back this week and I’m coming back to myself.

I don’t expect people to be honest with me and I have no idea what exactly does it mean to be honest with yourself.

I’m usually brutally honest with myself. It’s actually depressing.

Not sure what does that even mean. You can fool others but not yourself. There’s something called inner voice which you can’t shut down by any means. You can ignore it at the max but nothing more you can do about it.

Lately yes, years past not so much. As far as others being honest with me…I don’t get that from many people if at all other than my wife who is brutally honest with me and has assisted me with being honest with myself. Every morning now, I reassess who I am and what I want out of the rest of my life and honestly work toward that what it is that is best for me and my loved ones.

@imrainmaker I think the crux of this question goes both ways with your comment
“You can fool others but not yourself”
As a recovering alcoholic, for years I fooled myself into thinking all was well when others around me were not fooled one bit.

why bother?

@Cruiser – it was the alcohol..not you.

@imrainmaker Years ago I would have agreed with you on that…but it took taking ownership of my choice to drink. Being an alcoholic is a disease of choices…making the wrong choice to drink and drink and drink.

Unless I’m delutional, high on drug or lie so well that I start to believe my own lies. But so far I haven’t reached any of that yet.

^^^^ Good that you’re out of it now..)

One of my major goals in life recently has been to be honest with myself. I try not to delude myself.

I’m with @canidmajor. I am very factual with myself or truthful. But I do keep some things from myself just to feel better.
Like, the pounds I’ve gained make me appear jovial.
But when factual me comes around. It talks to me about arteries being clogged.
And Truthful me, tells me I hate it. I rather be thin. LOL
Then lying me says, media makes me want to be thin. It’s all their fault. Go eat a donut, you will feel better and stick it to them.

I expect people to be dishonest.