Game of Charades.

Here’s the game of charades we all play.

A different version of you exists in the heads of everyone else.

And a part of you is also how you decided to paint it to someone else. 

We all paint a different picture of ourselves to different people. 

Just simply, by reacting to the circumstances and/or situations we are placed. 

Let’s talk lies. 

How much honesty can we honestly find these days? 

Will we ever know? 

And is on our responsibility that someone could not be honest to us? 

How about the times, where we are the ones who ain’t honest? 

What exactly made them lie at that given moment?

For, we all lie, at some point in our lives. 

Manipulating the truth can sometimes get us what we want or even prevent a tragedy from happening. 

That is, if the lie does not come out of the intentions of hurting the other. 

That is, if we have the capacity to carry the burden of the lie. 

In a traditional sense of thinking, 

We’d think dishonesty is bad. 

Yet I’d think reality works very differently from traditional presets. 

We are only setting ourselves up for disappointments 

When we paint a picture of
simply black and white. 

In realism,

we acknowledge 

that here’s the grey we are never taught 

and yet to learn on our own

every single day. 

We may be a victim 

or a culprit.

So perhaps, 

it’s also on us to take all information with a pinch of salt 

on our duty to check it’s reliability 

and not get so caught up in the middle of 

blame and shame.

With an optimism intertwined in a little grimace,
here's cheers to a life
we know a little more of human nature 

day by day.