It has become socially and culturally contagious when the most cynical people are often the ones who tell the truth because they can stand the hard truth. But is that really what truth is? Is being genuine and sincere, and being true also being the most cynical? Not at all if we listen to and pay attention to the emotional tone it has. How it presents us to others. Because it goes in the opposite direction to real and mature relationships with genuine human depth. Instead, it constantly collects everything that is wrong, it becomes the only thing that occupies us and we collect it constantly and spread an intrusive righteousness and invulnerability around us that alienates us from ourselves, from our own inner nature and the content that truly unites us with others. The hard truth can be expressed with kindness too. With behaving and acting in the right way and facing reality as it is. The difference is that truth, belonging and sincerity are expressed with participation and not with rejection. It makes us listen deeper, to see further because it opens us up instead of mobilizing our personal defenses to protect our inner wounds and traumas, from seeing ourselves as we are. Violence and cynical assaults on personal mental integrity otherwise become the only way we have left to express the authenticity we carry within us. It seems to me that this has become the norm in most societies today, whose people as we ourselves are simultaneously incomprehensible to the reaction we create around us, in them, in this way.