Being overly honest

The irony is that the saying 'honesty is the best policy' is a lie in itself. A more accurate saying would be 'honestly is the best policy only during opportune circumstances in which it is required'. Yes, of course, striving for honesty is great and all, and lying is generally for negative intentions. However, in my own experience, being overly honest, while having its strange perks sometimes, has oftentimes led to some serious problems.

Starting off, you can unintentionally offend some people PRETTY badly if you're too honest (and especially if they're sensitive). For example, if a good friend of yours tells you their opinion regarding a particular topic, it's probably not the best idea to immediately shoot their opinion down, even if it does sound pretty darn stupid in your perspective. Honesty breeds callousness, especially if you don't know how to politely articulate the things you want to say. Sometimes, the truth is, if you've got nothing nice to say, you shut your cakehole and keep quiet.

Of course, being an overly honest person, you'll have difficulty lying, even the white lies. In my case, I felt an odd sense of guilt in it. Despite saying that lying is generally accompanied by negative intentions (which is true too), sometimes you really need to lie convincingly about certain things. What if a surprise birthday party is being planned for a friend of yours but you end up telling them about it? What if you ate that one out-of-bounds cake in the fridge? What if you passed wind in a public area? 

You also have a tendency to say the right things at the absolute wrong time. Your friend broke up with that one guy who's the Lord of Douchebags and now she's crying. This is a terrible time to tell her he's been unfaithful to her the whole time too, but your honesty antenna is twitching a lot, isn't it?

As previously stated, being this way is bound to offend a lot of people but the plus side is that the friends you do retain are the most loyal friends a person can ask for. You're the person who slaps them awake when no one else will, and sometimes, that's the best thing someone can ask for, and it's the reason they come to love you so dearly. Sometimes, in the best cases, they even learn from you and help you the same way you help them. No matter how honest, sometimes we lie to ourselves the most, and they prevent that.

Similarly, on your end of the spectrum, your honesty is one of the biggest reasons you're such a trustworthy person. You dislike other people's crap, and at the same time, you spout none (unless you're a hypocrite). 

Ultimately, the point is to realise that there's a fine line between being honest and being a jerk. Try not to be the latter and exercise this both detestable and lovable quality with caution. Seriously, remember that one annoying snitch back in school?