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There are people who want to tell you the truth about themselves and there are people who really, really don't want you to know the truth about them. They don't want to have

conversations about the truth about you or them, right? A lot of people who seem uninterested in telling the truth, the second you are in a

peaceful place and can say the tell the truth about yourself without a lot of

white noise around it or a lot of like a lot of the noise I'm making in this fucking interview.

The second you start to do that, those people kind of blossom in front of you because they feel like

now I can access like finally here's someone I can really tell the truth to you know which is amazing and then the less amazing thing is that when you do reach that level of comfort

where you can make some people just come out of their shell you sort of have this false expectation that, you know, you go

through this sort of hazy phase.

It's kind of like when you are in therapy and you start to feel your feelings and talk about your feelings and

then you kind of feel like you can just take that on the road and turn anyone into the

perfect loving friend just by giving you know shining your compassion onto them.

There's this feeling where you think that you're going to bring that out in everyone.

And the world is full of love.

And all you have to do is just connect with people.

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