Relationships. This is something everyone has experienced. I don't mean relationships in a romantic sense. I mean relationship in an everyday sense. We have a relationship with everyone we are close to. Everyone has had a relationship go sour on them and sometimes their left feeling totally confused. I know that's how I feel. There are friendships that I was so certain would last but now only a year later has turned into something less then a casual accquaintance. I don't know what went wrong. I mean we were friends and we were good friends and then suddenly we weren't any more. I don't know if it's the distance or the difference in professions or something else entirely. I mean I thought things were going great. It certainly seemed that way. The emails were always lively and fun. We kept in touch and we kept each other informed of the events in our lives and then suddenly the emails stopped.
I suppose relationships are hard even on a good day and this is just a prime example. I generally don't have a problem keeping friends. I mean, my best friend has been around for 17 years now and we're still going strong. Sometimes I think it's just a personality clash. Mostly, I think it's the fact that people are afraid to be honest. They are afraid to be honest with other people and they afraid to be honest with themselves. It is difficult I know that. Honesty can really hurt. Especially when it comes the time to admit something not so nice about yourself. The only cure for that is to remember that everyone has their little flaws and that no one is perfect. If anyone claims to be perfect that person is lying. Perfection is an ideal, it is something to strive for. The only problem is by the time you achieve it, you've been dead for a couple of years. Cheerful thought isn't it?
Honesty goes a long way in helping smooth the troubled waters of the relationship sea. It keeps the pretence to the minimum and it takes all the guess work out of the situation. It certainly helps things, because I know from experience that most people are just bad at guesswork. I should know, I suck at it. So let's all try and be a little more open, a little more honest and maybe, we won't have to work so hard at relationships.
Just Me.