I tend to say what I think. Okay, at times it’s almost as if it’s beyond my control and I just can’t help it. Life is too short to be inauthentic and I prefer friends who tell the truth. But is honesty always the best policy?

I think most of us would agree that we don’t want to surround ourselves with people who will talk about us behind our backs – unless, of course, they’re praising us. What if everyone simply told others to their faces what they were really feeling instead of “faking it” or avoiding an issue altogether? Would it make life better? It would certainly eliminate the secondhand news we hear from the go-betweens who reveal to us that someone else has, in fact, been bad-mouthing us. We would already know, because he or she would have told us the problem in the first place. That would be ideal, right? Right?