[bob_sapp]

Ever feel like it is difficult living in this world as a person who tries to act and communicate with rigorous honesty? It seems like the world right now is a house of cards based on lies, myths, BS, and other falsehoods while the truth is hated and to be kept under wraps (like my life before sobriety). If anyone is familiar with the analogy of Plato's cave (where basically the enlightened person who knows the truth tries to tell it to the people still living in darkness, and they kill him instead of letting his truth offend their bliss in ignorance)... it seems to apply to modern life. I don't have alcohol or drugs to keep me blissfully ignorant anymore, so I am often appalled and offended by the lies are indoctrinated in us through universities, the mass media, and popular belief. If I am to do what is normal for my age, I should be out getting smashed all the time and texting on my iphone what bars we're going to tonight, and pretending to like people or lying to women to get them into bed instead of being honest about what I think and want to them. But for some reason I am sober and trying to live a rigorously honest life, and hoping that by being honest with people and true to myself, I will get where I want to be, instead of being what the world tells me I should be and how I should act. It seems like to some people, rigorous honesty is deeply offensive to who they are as human beings, the same way that a life of lies, BS and deception is offensive to me.