Always Amanda

Why it's taking me so long to come to this realization I will NEVER know. It's so simple, yet powerful. Being completely, brutally honest with someone is like a fresh breathe of air for your soul. Sometimes it seems like it's so much easier to hide behind a facade designed to protect us from the world and from each other. Pretending your feeling something your not, or not feeling something you are- and why? Because we're afraid that if we really showed the world what we think, they'd find us lacking. But in that act of brutal honesty your saying to yourself that you accept yourself for who you are; people will see that and respect you for it. I feel sometimes as if everything in the girl world is a game or political ploy. But so often I catch myself acting in the same way I dislike in other girls. How can I expect someone to give me their complete honesty if I'm playing the same games they are? Things will just continue in the same vicious cycle. So along with being thankful this Thanksgiving I'm going to strive to be honest. With myself and with others.