“I made such a mistake!” Let’s say a person told you his failure story. If you are an honest person, you will answer “Ah, I made the same mistake too.” But if you are a dishonest person, you will hide your mistake and just listen to his failure story. When this happens with my relationship to people, I start to wonder about them. People who cannot share their mistakes, I cannot have heart-to-heart communication with them. Some people can never mention their mistakes. They are very secretive. Personally I am not good at keeping a relationship with those people. I do not dislike anyone, but I have people whom I am not so keen about.
I think I mentioned this in my past blog, people who want to be looked at as more than they really are cannot communicate heart-to-heart. How much do you communicate from your heart?
I am not saying that you should be honest with everything. You should know when you cannot be honest, it depends on the situation.
However, heart-to-heart communication is very important. People cannot do so because they want to hide their weakness. Some people listen to other people’s weakness and mistakes, but they hide theirs. If you are not honest you cannot ask “I have such weakness, what do you think I should do?” Because they want to appear as “more than themselves”, such questions never take place among those people. Therefore, such people can only have heartless conversation.
In America, I often hear “Let’s catch up!”. This is not bad. But I am not good at when catching up becomes the whole communication. I think it is pity to just exchange our current situations. I’d rather prefer conversation a little bit deeper than “Catching up”.
To live honest means to become more honest. It is to be honest to yourself and to others. If you live honest you will be able to exchange in a deeper level that will be precious to your life.