Only when I became fiercely honest was I able to see myself as an authentic man—fierce honesty helped me see I'm a Point Of Light revealing my myriad colors of beauty.
This blog asks you to reach inside and be fiercely honest with others and honestly reveal what you might think is your dark, ugly self. There's no way I could ask that of you Points Of Light while not revealing to each of you my own dark, ugly past that I've finally moved from. That past was the jagged rocks I talked about in the "Genesis For This Blog" content. I've come to accept my past as a real part of my journey to find self-acceptance and to gain meaning and a purpose for this life lived. I'm actually coming around to see the entirety of my life as being strands of light, revealing all kinds of color to a rich and well-developed portrait of a very flawed man who's nevertheless beautiful for the looking.
The journaling of this process I posted all on Facebook. I need you Points Of Light to know what I've done has worked for me and me alone. I might live in blissful ignorance, and this afforded me the opportunity to do something leading anyone reading my Facebook posts to think I was simply airing dirty laundry—"Facebook isn't the forum to do such a thing." In this way, maybe some of my "Facebook friends" were repelled by my posts. But I only considered it as a very public journal that was necessary for my catharsis. Beyond that, I was left to consider that if what I was writing helped just one hurting person, every dark, ugly thing I was writing in these posts was worth it! So, let me say: even if you can only be fiercely honest in therapy sessions, just be fiercely honest there. Be willing to be real by revealing what is hurting, what is causing it, and in turn making you not like yourself. Points Of Light, I know your pain is real; I know you feel it viscerally; I know this hurt and pain is deep. But I promise you, honesty is the cure you're seeking. The pain will heal. I'll be honest back to you: the healing might take some time, as it did with me, but with time the healing will come.
So the following is what I posted on Facebook. As I say, it's a collation of several days of posts. Points Of Light, I'm not proud of a lot of things contained in this, but it's honest and in this honesty I found healing...
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