Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of MRADA asks and Happy New Year. It's 2023. It's pretty unbelievable. I hope you all had a wonderful break.

I am recording this from home from my green couch. I just put slide of bed and it's 2023. And I've been thinking a lot about what values and ethics I believe in and what I want to bring into the new year and what I've learned in the past year.

I'm not somebody who typically makes a list or does the resolutions thing. I one year kind of actually kind of a pivotal year in my life. I did make a list of things I'd learned in the past year, which I look back on and I agree with some of it. Other ones I'm like, oh, that was so specific to what I wanted my life to be in that moment. If that makes any sense.

So I'm not somebody who sets intentions and all of that. But honestly, my year has been pretty crazy. It was put into two very different parts. And the second part of my year has been honestly pretty incredible.

And a lot of new people have come into my life and friendships have strengthened and I've just been thinking about why those people, why some people really hit for me and why other people don't.

And how to be a good friend and a good person in relationships, you know, family, all of that. And I was thinking about honesty in particular because there's something that I've talked a lot about in the wake of my breakup and just in my life in general.

I remember my dad telling me a story when I was really young about having a friend who was in a shitty relationship and we finally broke up with the person he was with came over my dad.

He was like saying all these things. My dad was totally agreeing with him. He was like trashing his ex girlfriend. My dad was like, yeah, totally at this and this and that and whatever. And they were drinking.

And then I don't know in my mind, it was like the next day he got back together with the girlfriend and never spoke to my dad again because my dad had seen the side of him and also said things in agreement that, you know, he just couldn't come back from and be a part of his life.

And if he was going to be in this relationship and just was thinking about honesty and the obligation we have to our friends to be truthful.

But also how maybe sometimes we emphasize truth too much or in a kind of in the wrong way without any qualifications or qualifiers to when it's important to be honest and truthful.

So let's get into it.

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Let's talk about honesty today.

So my story that my dad told me when I was little is kind of the classic one and it is kind of what made me think about this.

The most is when somebody in your life brings someone romantically usually but also sometimes just a friend and you see right through them and you see that they're not good for that person or that they're making that person feel bad about themselves or that they have qualities that are really not great.

And I think what I've been thinking about when I think about honesty and being truthful with people that you love and care about is thinking about the intention of why you want to be honest because I think this is basically the cracks of this episode and I think what I've come to, which is that a lot of the times people are quote unquote honest when they just actually have another agenda and they use honesty as an excuse to project.

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