honesty

I sometimes wish for the opportunity to arise when I'm asked specifically how I feel about someone and get to answer completely honestly. I wish I could ask people to ask me how I really feel about them. But I guess the world doesn't really work that way. Few are prepared to hear such honesty without also feeling attacked and consequently defensive, myself included. And while I fantasize about it being a healthy experience wherein each of us would get to learn about and improve ourselves, it's pretty easy to see that it wouldn't happen that way.

I'm not talking about anyone in particular; I'm just thinking. And that may be a sign of weakness on my part; like I'm not fearless, upfront and/or douchey enough to just offer my opinion of someone without being provoked, so I fantasize about getting to let it all out and fantasize about making people feel good with the positive remarks/explaining my actions and interactions with them with the negative. I think a part of it is also the little Buddha in me wanting to make peace with everyone by creating an open forum for dialogue. And part of it is me being curious about what these people would say in response and what I'd have to learn by what people think of me.

I don't know. What do you think? Could such a thing ever work if put out there, and if so, would you be interested to know?

I posed this question to a couple people in my personal life and got some great feedback, but I also want to know what the rest of the world thinks.