It Is Not Easy to Tell the Truth 說真話不易 — Jennifer’s World

It’s not easy to tell the truth.

說句真話，真不容易。

To tell it, you must first overcome your own fears. Because the truth may offend some people. Even if you just say something like “today’s weather is hahahahaha”, which should not offend anyone, someone will feel offended because he/she may not like you in the first place; and he/she will come to pick on you and say: how dare you say “today’s weather is hahahahaha” when so many people are suffering today?

要講出來，首先得克服自己內心的恐懼。因爲真話可能會冒犯一些人。就算是你只說了句其實應該不會冒犯任何人的「今天天氣哈哈哈哈」之類的，也會有人會覺得受到了冒犯，因爲他/她可能早就看你不順眼，他/她會來挑毛病說：今天還有那麼多人在受苦受難，你居然有心情在這裏說「今天天氣哈哈哈哈」？

If this person is completely unrelated to you, so be it, you can just ignore it.

這個人如果是與你全然無關的人也就罷了，你大可以不必理會。

However, if you happen to think that he/she is actually quite related to you, and may even “represent” you in some sense, and his/her somewhat ridiculous, radical, and incorrect ideas or ways of thinking will hurt him/her, and everything related to him/her, of course, including you, what can you do?

可是，如果你恰好覺得他/她跟你其實挺有關係，甚至可能會把你也「代表」了，而他/她種種有點可笑，有點偏激的，有點不正確的想法或思想方法，會傷害到他/她，及與他/她相關的一切，當然這其中也包括你，你怎麼辦呢？

Maybe you will summon up your courage and say it.