In Real life...

In our quest to live life within all of its intricacies I feel like somehow we lost something...

REAL

In our overstimulated, hyper-glamorized, overabundant, excessive lives we lost the ability to be real and seek out what is real....

Women..Men..All of us..doesn't matter, WE are all guilty of making face for whatever the situation calls for.  

Men say...I want a woman that is beautiful withOUT makeup..you know the kind of woman that looks GOOD in the morning when she first wakes UP?

BUT... the magazines they "read" don't depict women in this au naturel state...the women they place as 10's, they have never seen this way.  What they have seen up close and personal is us, their moms, their sisters, their aunties, their co-workers, their 6th grade teachers...

Women say...I would gladly take a man that is in-tuned with his emotional side, someone who gets me, A man that loves me for who I am right at this VERY moment...

BUT...they men they seek has a particular degree, he has status..he has swag in and outside of the bedroom.  He knows how to operate in all kinds of boardrooms and back alleys...he is two parts this: intelligence...one part this: edgy...one part this: funny...and a WHOLE lot of: handsome {insert what that is to you}...and a few sprinkles of: emotionally aware, generous, spiritual, generous....

In the end what's fake ..what's real.. what's 
lies  is up to you...but the way I see  it is that we spend a whole lot of time trying..trying really really hard to be real....

And what is that you ask? really really open...