Openness is the quality of being honest and
not hiding information or feelings. It is also the quality of being able to
think about, accept, and listen to different ideas or people; the quality of
not being confined or covered.
Ladies,
let’s be sincere to ourselves here. Majority of us are not open. We have
trained ourselves not to talk, share or listen to people especially same sex
and this is affecting us. Remember one of the previous posts titled SCREAM OUT.
How many of us have been able to scream out?
Pride
goes before a fall and many of our ladies out there are falling due to pride. We believe so much in ourselves that we are so confined and covered. We do not
speak out or share our issues with fellow friends. We have groomed ourselves to
keep quiet in every situation.
Being
open doesn't make you cheap, instead it makes you know more;
it enlightens you and increases your knowledge on different situations. Using
myself as an example, in the past, I thought being open was something bad
because I always feel that people will always take advantage of me because of
my kind of person. But now I know better. Being open has given me an added
advantage of learning things from people around. Many people confide in me
because they know am not confined in my ways. I have been able to learn from
others due to my openness.
Many
ladies out there are dying inside, they are hurting. They are scared of being
betrayed by people. Let me tell you, if you confide in someone and the person
betrays you, it gives you the opportunity to know that the person isn't
worth
being a friend. But when you are open, it creates an avenue to know more about
people around you. It helps you to also amend your ways through the things you
learn from them. Never under estimate anyone because the person whom you think
you can’t be open to might just be the person who has the solution to that
problem.
Many
ladies have committed suicide due to some bitter experience they have encounter
in their relationship. This is because they conceal the problems in their
heart. They refuse to share their pain. When their heart can’t contain it, they
feel committing suicide will help.
I
believe we are matured enough and we should know that in the process of being
open, we should not accept every advice. We should learn to discern. Some
advice can ruin one’s life so we should be very careful. So we should be able
to make right decisions. Also let it be that people whom we confide in are
people who will be of great help to us; people who are matured in thinking,
people whose lives can be used as good examples in the society. Do not be
misled in the process of being open. BE OPEN AND BE WISE.