It irritates me to see people sugar-coat this and that, be it a normal posting and sharing on my social medias, sermons, decision making process, conversations to daily behaviour. Forgive me if I sound to be intolerant, this is what has disturbed me for years.
I can understand imperfection, be tolerant to incompetency, lenient to weaknesses as I believe we all included have issues on this matter.
But to be authentic is totally up to us.
The thing is, people is real, the struggles are real, problems are real, joyful times are real and painful times are real. To overlook and dismiss them through brief conclusion is purely arrogant. No matter how you think the people should be thinking, the fact that each of us have problems is real.
How about starting by being real?
I mean, you can enjoy your joyful times, share your happiness with people, admit your wrongdoings, mistakes and weaknesses and EVEN enjoy your imperfection with people you love... OR you can choose to show the world or your closest pals as if you always hold everything together. Showing your cliche or shallow set-of-sentence just doesn't work out for me, nope, especially IF you are a person who brings certain impact to your community.
I agree on what Pastor Steven said - when he was about to release "Crash the Chatterbox"- about his passion to bring out authentic messages that sometimes might show his visible weaknesses, messages without plastic.
In my opinion, sugar-coating is sweet, way too sweet that it ruins the original taste.
Don't you know that every matter has their own original core of issue?
When you try to water it down without settling the real issue, you're just making it blurry. The problem seems to disappear and yet it's still there, you just dissolve it with other things only to find it even harder to be answered.
I take authenticity seriously (I know I'm in China and some of my belongings were "made in China" #iykwim), but when it comes to your life, there's is no option.
Whether you are being real or you are not.
I know I'm in no place to judge between authentic and non-authentic people, but I prefer to have my space from some people. I may be right, I may be wrong to do this, but doing some things just doesn't cause peace to me, thus I choose not to.
I have the whole several months of being separated from to ponder on this and in the end, I have decided which side I'd be standing on my whole life,
and I choose to be real.
