This weekend I have had a number of experiences that highlighted to
me that an examination of motive is very very important, when deciding if to
confess or not to confess.
If I have done something to hurt you, and you do not know about
it, should I confess to you? Confession
is good for the soul right?
What if the matter is a life and death issue? If it is a stone cold tomb serious issue? So large, so big that it’s impact in your
life will send it veering dangerously. “Tire
burst dangerous veering into oncoming traffic” type of issue. That there is a high probability that the
issue will ruin you, your relationship, your whole life, all your kins life,
and that of the next 7 generations?
Should I confess? Come out
of the blue and tell you the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Will the
truth set us free?
The “us” has a “me” and a “you”.
Will the truth set you free? Maybe. Finally.
After you have gone through immeasurable pain and wishing that you had
remained in blissful ignorance. Wishing
you could turn back the clock to just moments before the confession
happened? So that you could refuse to
hear the truth and remain happy and unaware?
Will the truth set me free?
I do not know. Maybe. I will have changed my secret guilt into a
public or shared guilt. Will my burden
shared be a burden halved?
I will watch your denial. I
will watch the suffering you will go through as you come to the realization
that the person you thought I was is not the person I actually am. As you realise that I am a liar and cannot be
trusted. I will watch you wonder what
else is a lie. I will watch you hate yourself
for being fooled by me. I will watch you
wail, mucus dripping loud mouth wailing in despair, as you wonder how the God
you serve could have sent a venomous poisonous snake viper thing into your bosom.
I will watch you hate me. I will watch
as you try to stop to care for me.
At some point, I will get angry with you for carrying on so. I will proceed to tell you things about
yourself and your reaction to my confession that will probably add injury to
the wound. I will be wondering how long
is this going to go on for, as probably month after month or year after year,
things never quite go back to being the same.
I will be thinking this is not a burden halved, but a burden
doubled - nay multiplied.
And I will remember that from the moment I started my self induced
confession - I was wondering “why the hell did I speak”. Better to have rotted with the guilt and crap
in my soul than go through this.
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