How often do you run into huge misunderstandings with your friends, family, colleagues, simply because you and the other person had failed to communicate? More often than you hoped to, right? I personally hate lies, and unfortunately the world around us is build on lies. Everyday people pretend to like their work, pretend to be happy in relationships they don’t enjoy, pretend to like who they are because that’s what is considered the best by the world around them, the world that holds on lies to begin with …etc etc etc. I don’t know about you, but I don’t find this comforting. I like to be honest and to be straight about things. If something is wrong, I’d like to know it so I could try to fix it as fast as possible.

Ironically, because of the way things are, most people expect lies. (I know, I blogged about that before, still, it’s important!). If people didn’t expect lies, then “consulting” language would not be preferred to a street talk. A phrase “Strategic planning” has just as much context to it as “think that sh*t through*, but clearly most of us would prefer the strategic positioning. Although this “theatre” makes life fun, it also makes it so much more complicated, and it doesn’t make me happy.

For example, 5 years have gone by and although me and my university friends know each other, we really don’t know anything about each other. No one shares who they really are, what they really feel because often those real emotions, real troubles and real smiles would not match up to the personalities that were created and well maintained throughout the years. It is not a bad things, it is a natural ways of protecting one self, but neither is it a good way to communicate. If only we could all trust each other a little more, screw one another behind the back a little less, the world would be a better place.

I like to know how people tick, what’s on their minds, what it really is that would make them happier, but it’s just so much more difficult to get to the root of the problem when everyone’s playing games! It’s fun, but there needs to be a balance and I feel like most of us are way too much on the pretend side of life and I wish that most people open up a bit more.