Three Types...

Three types of people become evident when you choose to live life in transparency:

First:  The type that is so used to playing everyone for some level of control that they do so even without malice.  They will present facades even for the sake of good but they are hardly ever truly themselves.  Seeing them for what they are, they will recoil from you because they know no other way to be and since you see through that, they find no way to exact an upper hand or stay in some form of control.  You will lose these.

Second:  The type that plays everyone to an extent as a defense mechanism.  They are afraid of being themselves for fear of what others may think.  Too strange, too crazy...uncool.  These present their facades at first but once they see that you see through that and are still interested in who they are really are...you become a breath of fresh air.  They know they can be themselves around you without judgement.  A gift that in the long run...keeps on giving as they soon feel free enough to be themselves everywhere else.

Third:  The type that doesn't play at all and just speaks whatever comes to mind.  This my friends, is a transparent in the making.  On the road to transparency, there are many bumps and bruises you have to be willing to take before you come to understand the wisdom of prudence.  Not everything that pops into your head will "edify" and if it doesn't in the setting where you are, prudence will tell you to keep it yourself.  What many do not understand is that transparency takes boldness.  A boldness that is willing to be the only one among a thousand to stand up against the tide.  A boldness that will risk being humiliated by the crowd due to your stance.  A boldness that sees being true to oneself as more important than keeping friends around that don't know the real you and wouldn't accept you if they did.  These transparents in the making will think you "soft" for your prudence at first but you will just chuckle because they will soon come round to the wisdom of prudence.

My blog has lately served as my only distraction away from my projects.  Today, necessitated another.  I am always glad to be able to "see".  Anyway...back to my labors of "love"...

~Moses