Are We Prepared?

We sit watching show after show, reading book after book, having discussion after discussion with one person then the next. And the common theme keeps surfacing: as humans, we can’t seem to trust each other.

Are we prepared?

We keep treating a great relationship as protecting someone from the truth — then apologizing when the truth surfaces anyway. We say we lie to our loved ones because it’s best for them. But if it’s best, why are we apologizing? Are we sorry for their pain, or for our own failure to give them a choice?

Why don’t we believe people can handle honesty? Is it because their eyes fill with water in the moment? Because they give us that empty stare of shock? Or is it because we think so little of ourselves that we assume they’d leave — because we would? Whatever the reason, we keep painting the art of lying as a masterpiece of love.

Are we prepared?

To look at the people we care about most and share our darkest thoughts, our biggest faults, our everything? To ask them to love us for who we are, while trusting we won’t repeat the same mistakes? To think dark but remain light — to devote every truth we have to offer? We keep letting fear of the outcome win in our heads, while disregarding our hearts.

Are we prepared?

To have relationships where love is a faith, not just an emotion — where words, actions, and belief all work in sync? To pledge a life of transparency, patience, and selflessness? Let’s see love as maturing into togetherness. Not a search to find yourself in others, but a way of defining part of who you are alongside them.

Love is a group journey. So if we aren’t prepared to merge, we should stop saying “I love you.” We aren’t prepared to truly relate until common ground is the priority, until we’re having honest discussions, until we’re searching for the truth in each other.

So — are we prepared? Or are we going to keep believing that deception is the preparation?

The LoveSnobs