Monday, July 28, 2008

Diplomacy causes heart attacks

Do you know Taalya? Taalya Tranchell? She is Johann and Taanya's kid. She is probably 3 years old. Me and charith were getting a lift in their car. Another little girl who i have seen around (probably around five or six) was also there (little girl b)

Little girl a) says to little girl b)

"Are thosh stickhersss??????"

Little girl b) replies

"yesh, Taalya these are MY stickersh. Where are YOUR stickersh? Did you leave them in that room where we were?"

See, she is hardly eight, and has already begun to get caught in to this wretched fear of survival that we fight all our lives. Darwinian evolution through society. She is already assuming that Taalya's parents would think SHE has stolen their daughter's stickers and is anxious to prove her innocence. More importantly, this is just what i really have come to hate at work. It seems that when you're really annoyed, is sometimes when you are really ready to give everyone a dose of truth.

Whenever i have ever achieved anything, it's not been because of diplomacy but because of prayer and because of taking risks. Diplomacy makes us be at false peace with people, and makes us boiling seas of unease, insecurity and I don't know. Don't be diplomatic. Let's take risks. Let's say what's on our mind. Of course, all diplomacy is borne off the fact that either we think the other person can't handle the truth, or we can't tell them the truth. I.e. if we haven't done something wrong ourselves, there is no need to be diplomatic. Let's give people a little more credit than we do. They'll be able to take honesty. The truth in love, is a thousand times more productive than diplomacy.

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