it's hard to tell the truth, but once told it's hard to keep it back.
~Sharon Green
For whatever reasons we may feel compelled to withhold the truth, we can only do it for so long. Like holding your breath, eventually you run out of air. We are never more than a gulp from freeing ourselves and falling back into the open.
Often its the fear of the truth that keeps us from speaking it.
But once the truth is revealed, no matter how difficult to say or face, the release of that terrible pressure that keeps us hidden and isolated is freeing.