Open, Honest Communication

I have this really crazy idea, that has become my life Philosophy, that if people take the time to communicate with each other completely openly and honestly, with caring, patience and a desire to truely understand the other persons point of view, and work through things, if people did that, i feel like about 90% of all problems could be solve.

I feel like if peope faced reality, rather than running from it, life would be a lot less scarry.

Its kind of funny, but I think we as human beings like to live in alternative realities, because we imagine reality to be more scary than it is, we think "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!!"

The funny thing is, I've noticed something, we tend to make our alternative realities either way better or way worse than the truth, and though truth can be hard to swollow, I would say, its always better than when reality comes crashing through our greatest dreams, or than living in the terror of our nightmares.

So, even though in real life, my open honest communication technique doesnt work as idealy as i always imagine, i still feel its a far better way to live than in the worst case senario that my unchecked brain will inevitably create to fill a vacume of communication and the void of lifes ambiguities.

Crazy as it is, I still think the truth sets us free.