Our parent’s teach us never to lie to another, but have we lost the lesson of never lying to ourselves. Sometimes in life it is easier to ignore the truth and linger in a moment than acknowledge that the moment was a lie. I for one have created this as a truth for me in the past. Essentially though – it is much easier to create false truths around us and ignore speaking the truth to ourselves. In what moment does one concede the need to be honest with ourselves first? Solidify the foundation of our lives by accepting the moment that we are in.
Sometimes keeping oneself busy doesn’t negate the need to be present in that moment – despite how hard it is. Though doesn't society contradict itself when it teaches individuals who are unhappy to channel energy to "fix" that thing deemed missing in our lives. Yet we never look around at the things that are really absent – don’t acknowledge the truth.
Without communication living is replaced with life. Indeed we live in a society so misconstrued in living life in expedited madness that communicating to our own souls is something rarely achieved. Just open your eyes and see the emptiness in others; the colleague unhappy in their job, the friend absent from a gathering, an unhappy relationship, unresolved relationships and relationships that simply do not exist.
Without the truth being said absence is brought to relationship. I am sure we can all sit here and wish that at some point or another we were informed of a truth at an earlier moment in time. But do we not contribute too? I have been hesitant in speaking a truth and have at times 'appeared' more focused on pretending I didn’t know the answers. And yet – I still feel that I don’t know the answers. I still have so many questions that are targeted in the past.
I can’t help but reflect on moments in time that have passed and acknowledge that in a fleeting moment there is happiness and in the next breath sadness… where does the truth lie? I have always been taught that it is somewhere in the middle. But I still wonder how we re-create the truth for ourselves in this moment – perhaps I missed this lesson.
Do we as humanity choose to continually keep ourselves, our thoughts, our truth hidden in the hope that life will be replaced with living? Hear my truth. We have to move forward, we must stare fate in the face and risk embarrassment, risk being hurt, risk the rejection and the humiliation of telling someone we truly care about our truth. Communication may appear to be the devil of our lives today but the real pain will be the regret of the yesterday. Live. Breathe. Be true to yourself. Give your all. Believe. Dare. Communicate. TRUTH.
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