My lips are sealed

Ok, so today I feel like having a moment with my keyboard.
So I am thinking, how do you weave your way around telling an acquaintance that the thing they believe is great is not all that. This I must say still eludes me especially when I see the person’s eyes shinning with joy at the prospect that you were impressed.

Am I a goody goody? No way, I am far bolder than that; this is why such a thing puzzles me. I think it is easier to tell your friends about their shortcomings than the not so close people for fear that you will be thought insensitive.

Sometime back I sat thru a Ugandan movie whose every scene sent embarrassment shocks down my spine. All I could do was clutch my neighbours hand (a friend who shared the same feelings) and say oh no, how can this be so not that good. Now the problem was that we couldn’t dare tell the people who were involved with the movie.

Then there is this other acquaintance whose sense of style drives me crazy but I won’t dare breath a word. All I do is take one glance and hope tomorrow it will be better.
Oh! what about the guy who has been forgetting to put deodorant on his shopping list for the last two years ? Need I mention the other one whose breath makes you want to bare your breakfast for all to see?

It just seems so hard to point out some of these things. Makes me sometimes wonder what I may be doing wrong but cannot be told by another person who is just like me.

But like they say; what you don’t know does not hurt you, so we all live happily ever after.