A life lesson: People can only be honest with you about their feelings, to the extent that they are honest with themselves.

Remember: People can only be honest with you about their feelings, to the extent that they are honest with themselves. 

~~

I wasn't always this stubborn. I never wanted to trust my intuition of people's thoughts and feelings and motives over what they explicitly say about them. I was never out for some crown of "I know people better than they know themselves." That's not the world I want. That's not the weight I want.

But life has created this unfortunate pattern of worse and worse things happening the more I trust what most people say about themselves over what I read off them.

I'm scared of the day when I am actually wrong and they are trying to tell me but I don't believe them because I was always right to not believe them before. And I hate this.