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...A sweet lie or a bitter truth?
A few thoughts that have been inspired by a recent film I'd watched:
Every last one of us had been in situation where we had to choose what to say to people we held dear. Realizing that the truth might hurt, most of us decided to say sweet lies in order to protect them from being disappointed. But was that so? I mean, were we really trying to protect them? No! Quite the contrary, we were erecting a wall of lie to hide ourselves from their disappointed eyes. But for how long the wall could resist the truth that, no matter what, wanted to break through outside, so thoroughly avoiding all the traps we had laid on its way? And the more we were defending our lie, the more walls were being built; and eventually, it was already not a few walls but a labyrinth from which even we could not see a way through. But what if we would just tell the truth, no matter how bitter it was. What was the worst that might happen? Few minutes, hours, days of them being mad at us or maybe more, but at least, we had not to drown ourselves into the bog of lie. Forgiveness. A phenomenon that cannot be explained when the matter affects people we love, unless they have done something despicable, something that distorts the most remote parts of our ourself to the ground, destroying and perverting all what makes us be us. Although not everything can be forgotten, yet the truth still serves better...
All feedbacks on how smoothly my thoughts have been expressed and a proper choice of words are welcome.
Grammar corrections are welcome too...
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The beginning of my journey into English...
Few years ago, as millions of others, I decided to learn at least one foreign language. The importance of English was indisputable, and without any doubts on my mind the choice was made instantly. With the strong feeling of dedication to my new passion for learning an alien language, the first move that I did was, of course, to google the most sacred at the moment words ''How to learn English''. It was so simple but unfortunately, Google had some different plans and without any of my awareness added one more word to my searching. The word was ''fast'', one word that drastically changed the direction of searching.
Not paying too much attention to this insignificant matter, as I thought then, I started clicking on every link provided by that deceptive search-engine. Most of those web resources claimed to have made a native speaker out of me within 1, 3, or 6 months at the very worst. Having been flattered by such a sweet lure of effortless studying, while reading their so promising articles, I already felt like as if I little by little became a native English speaker. Not surprisingly that the euphoria hadn't lasted for too long and all my expectations were shattered into pieces as soon as I scrolled down the page to the price of that very fast transformation. Although my enthusiasm almost fully dissipated due to not having some extra money burning a hole in my pocket, I learnt from that lesson a lot and realized one thing for good: every decision that I was going to make from that point forward had to be thoroughly thought out instead of taking a leap in the dark.
Keeping that rule in mind I got rid of that misleading word "fast" in a searching form as fast as possible; though, the pattern of the first page, that Google suggested, didn't change much, I managed to find few more links that at first look seemed to be reliable. And a very simple phrase that drew my attention to and finally opened my eyes was: "in order to make your first attempt to speak any foreign language at least one years' time has to be invested in studying, and if you're one of those naive optimists who believes that it's possible to learn something within a month you should close that tab immediately"; since then my journey has begun...
Any feedbacks, corrections on grammar and proper usage of words are welcome...
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