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Eyes Wide Shut
As a people, we have a predilection for justice. Under normal circumstance, we’re committed to pointing out wrong.
The further away from us the wrong is committed, the more emphatic about it we are. But when it comes closer to home, we become indifferent. It is easy to call out a politician on television, a local public official, your children’s school teacher, or anyone we don’t have real ties to, that it is to call out those in close proximity to us.
Why does it become different when you have a strong relationship with that person?
Why is it difficult to call out close friends, family, bosses, and people we hold in high regard?
Is it perhaps that the nature of the relationship sways a stronger influence than justice itself? If this is so, justice is no longer a paramount virtue like we hold it to be. It’s a phenomenon to consider all on its own. We hold truth in such high regard, and so we should, but often times truth is swallowed up by love.
There is a higher chance for you to relinquish the truth because of love, though you consider yourself a morally upright person. People hate liars, but most would lie for the sake of love.
Take such a scenario for example; you and your loved one (could be a sibling or partner) are…
