Do you feel ever your friends loosing respect due to much frankness?

It can be a fine line to walk between being honest with your friends and keeping them as friends. As my grandmother always said, "if you can't say something nice, come sit next to me. " Oh wait, that was Gertrude Stein, not my grandmother... grandma said "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

There are ways to word things so you are being honest and still being kind. If a friend has a new bathing suit that is unflattering and asks you what you think, you don't say "Oh my god you look hideous! It shows every roll of fat!", you say instead, "Well, I think that a style cut lower on the hips might flatter you more, and wasn't your last suit navy?

It brought out your eyes so nicely, which the white doesn't do as well. But you're beautiful no matter what." What's said can't be unsaid, and words have power.

You can't take back a rude comment, or undo the hurt that affected a friend's heart. It doesn't matter if you apologize, they still will have that small scar on their memory of you.It only takes a moment to think about your words and how you phrase something, and can make a difference in your life.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.