msb-0252 Honesty is the Easiest Policy

msb-0252 Honesty is the Easiest Policy

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---- "Nothing Is Easy" by: "Francis Collete" http://www.myspace.com/fcbandnj

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---- "Easy" by: "Life Has Teeth" http://www.myspace.com/lifehasteeth

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---- "If It Don't Come Easy" by: "Sylvie Lewis" http://www.myspace.com/sylvielewis

"Thesis:"

Mother said, amongst many other aphorisms, that honesty is the "easiest" policy.

She didn't say that it was the best or the wisest.

Its just the easiest.

After all, you don't have to account for discrepancies in your story.

When you lie, you have to worry about getting caught in the lie.

When you lie to yourself, you may have to face much more dire consequences.

"Nicolae Ceauşescu" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C5%9Fescu ] was telling himself that his people loved him even as the executioners were drawing a bead.

"Sadam Hussein" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein ] was shocked at the temerity and arrogance of his executioners as they put a noose around his neck.

You probably don't have to face consequences as dire as those, unless you like to juggle vials of nitroglycerin in your trembling hands.

---- "Easy Come Easy Go" by: "Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

"Synthesis:"

It gets us back to denial.

I do go on about it because it too friggin' easy to slip back into denial.

After all, when you have an episodic disease, specially if you've got a relapsing/remitting form of MS, it all to easy to, uh, forget, (omit from your reality, [commit to the darkest corners of oblivion,]) that you've got it.

The urge to do so is in part motivated by a very natural reticence towards the unknown: "dread".

But more and more is becoming known about MS and disease in general every minute of every hour of every day of every week or every month of every year.

There is less and less to be afraid of, less and less to dread.

As for feeling any shame about being sick (and you know that some people do that,) get over yourselves.

Having MS nothing to be ashamed about.

Its not even a venereal disease that you could at least brag about at the neighborhood bar when you're in your cups.

You were in the wrong place at the wrong time and got blind-sided by a bus with the license plate "MS".

---- "easy" by: "impossible songs" http://impossiblesongs.blogspot.com/

"Conclusion:"

Mother was right.

Honesty "is" the easiest policy. Its not necessarily the "best" policy because we can end up looking pretty petty but is the easiest policy because we can keep the story straight.

The more all of us know, the less some of us dread.

Now we just have to come to grips with the oxymoron of medicine for profit. (I don't have too ambitious an agenda, do I? :-)

---- "Easy Groove" by: "The Blue Mile" http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?AID=491193&T=2726

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