When your friend invites you to something that they’ve created it might be difficult to tell them how you truly feel, especially if it sucks. You want to be honest but just because you see it that way doesn’t mean it is so. How to go about tactfully telling the truth without leading your friend down the path of failure is a difficult road to weave. Here are a few pointers (below) that might be helpful.
(1) Thank them for the invite. In your mind you might be thinking thank you for this trip to hell but at least remember you were invited.
(2) Find a positive aspect of their plan and speak about. The door was very pretty might be a bit too obvious.
(3) Tell them everyone sees differently but don’t say they’re blind.
(4) Find some solution to make it better but don’t tell them to lock the door and run.
(5)Suggest that it’s great to go for your dreams yet don’t tell them it reminds you of a Freddy Kruger movie.
(6) Care to tell the truth in a way that leads them step by step out of the mess not run over them.
(7) Finally pray that you’re wrong and/or that they find a path not full of land mines to get them out of this mess.