The unvarnished truth.

I've been thinking a lot about the things we choose to share with other people in cyberspace. It's a lot of blogging out there. And I have to say I'm pretty fed up with these perfect blogposts about beautiful days in the sun, everyone smiling looking like models. It's a bit the same with facebook updates. It's all so bloody perfect and people doesn't seem to be doing anything else but eating fancy suppers with the perfect company  and it's no end of all the praise we give each other over good deeds and things we do. I'm no better myself. I often written things, especially on facebook, to get positive response to something I've done.

I'm thinking that the real life, the life here and now, is so much more than just blog posts and facebook updates. Real life is hard, ugly and often rainy. It's diseases, poverty, fights, depressions and bulimia. I want to strike a blow to all of you out there: be honest, share failures equally to success because it's when life is hard that you need cheering, not the other way around. And I think that common people would like to read more about real life, not the polished and perfect exterior of it.

We can start by looking at our children, they're always forgiving and willing to love you even if you're ugly, poor or just plain stupid. For them it's no truth but the unvarnished one and for them that's the most amazing and beautiful thing ever. That's pretty marvelous.