Everyone wants to be real.
Everyone wants to be authentic and vulnerable and deep.
We all want to skip past the first impressions, the small talk, the acquaintances stage of friendship and dive into the murky unknown of someone's soul.
I see it all over social media...
"I hate small talk. Let's have real conversation about life, your soul, something deep, blah blah blah."
Our society is begging for honesty and realness. We're done with the how do you do's and surface level conversation, and there is a craving for something deeper. There is a strong preference of having meaningful conversation rather than cheap and empty words.
But are we really ready to create the atmosphere of vulnerability that the world is craving?
I don't think so.
The world is crying out HONESTY. VULNERABILITY. AUTHENTICITY.
And yet we're not willing to put in the work to get there. If we expect more than cheap words, we have to be willing to pay the price for authenticity. I think there are two basic roadblocks to reaching our goal.
