Honesty without Privacy is a Nude Practice

I would like to borrow the terms that Mas Kokok put on his YM tagline around 3 months ago for the subject of this bulletin. Somehow, they caught my attention and attracted me to think more of what he's trying to say about it.

I would like to start with my childhood where I used to be silent and kept everything for myself. I shut all the doors for communication with anybody. I grumbled to myself. I cried for myself and I laughed alone and at myself. I smiled to myself and I even talked to myself. I talked when someone else started to talk.

When I got mad at others yet I just wrinkled my forehead and shut my mouth tight. All the right things that I had to say were just spoken to me and me only. I was never able to argue and to tell stories.

Then, one time it came to me that I had to say what’s right and what my rights are. Still I could not say it in the right way. I said everything that I wanted. I beat up when I could not talk. I slammed doors when I was losing an argument. I yelled and cried when I lost my senses. I even planned to get lost. Yet I might be still doing the same thing now unconsciously.

Those people that I know; they can just say everything that they think is right without slamming doors when they lost an argument, without beating up anybody when they were offended. They are discussing it. They are talking about it. They also put words on paper; they put messages on a tagline in YM like what I always do too. They are so brave. They are taking risks and chances. They are so open. They are so clear in saying things. I wish I could be like them.

But then when I saw that tagline of Mas Kokok’s, I came back to a question, “do we really need to be that obvious of what we are thinking and feeling?”

Is that why some prophets used symbols?

Is that why manners in talking were created?

But how do you interpret those words, HONESTY WITHOUT PRIVACY IS A NUDE PRACTICE.

This is how I interpret them, whatever things that we are thinking and we feel, still there are moments where we need to keep it for ourselves and/or only be done with the immediate persons affected or affecting.

What do you say my friends?

I am telling this because you are my friends and I want to share this honesty because you might get affected to the way I say things.

Pre-justification and pre-clarification to anything that I did, do and will do?

Maybe