Sometimes honesty can be over-rated. Just because an opinion we hold is honest does not mean it needs to be expressed. I don't have to tell someone that I really hate what they are wearing. I doubt if you go around doing that either. Well . . . a lot of things can be looked at in the same way. If I don't like someone's way of thinking about an issue, I don't absolutely have to blurt that out to them. I can just listen. Or - I can move away from them so I don't have to listen to them.

This is something that I'm really working on hard myself. I've gotten myself agitated trying to respond to things people say that I disagree with. Now I tell myself, why get myself hyped up? I don't have to respond to everything. That gets tiring. People don't need to know what I think about everything. It's called using discretion in speech. It's not a case of being phony or changing who I am. I'm learning that I have to let other people be who they are, too.