She seems too honest about herself, so she can’t be trusted, right?

She feels lucky to have those around her. Aside from her family, there are her friends who love and trust her. Some she knew for nearly a decade, some she just met from recent months and easily bonded with as if the friendship has been through years. She feels lucky to have them hover around her to remind her of how she deserves to be loved and trusted. How, beneath the sometimes dangerous image, dark demeanor, the crazy neon red hair, and the vandal-like tattoos, is a woman who has a heart for what is good and what is right and what is just. Otherwise, she, herself, would have believed what other people think about her. People who can’t see beyond what is easily perceived. People who think that she, like her tattoos, and red hair, and image, is a vandal, who is crazy, dark and dangerous.

For most people, it’s easy to think the worst out of people who are different, who are strange. And in this age of hidden agendas and conspiracies, it seems easier to think the worst out of people who open themselves to the world.  Every wound, every quirk, every bad habit, out in the open. Too much honesty about one’s self, sometimes to the point of debasing herself, can be very suspicious, right? Because no one seems to be honest about one’s self these days, right? In this day and age of social networking sites, everyone’s instinct is to hide himself under awards, and achievements, and happy family pictures, and MA degrees, and designer bags, and expensive gadgets, and good manners, and flawless grammars, and cups of coffee to be had in posh shops. And if you see someone who doesn’t feel the need to “hide” herself, she must not be trusted, right? She probably has an ulterior motive, right?

Forget about the possibility that maybe, just maybe, she just doesn’t believe in pretenses. Forget about the possibility that maybe, just maybe, she never felt that she has the need to put on a mask of someone who she is not, because maybe, just maybe, she celebrates who she is, her uniqueness, her individuality, even her flaws. But no, she is too honest about herself, therefore, she shouldn’t be trusted, right?

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