I've certainly taken up being honest more. People get uncomfortable and can often not deal with confronting the real.

I'll even do it at work, where my honesty can indeed upset people.

I do wish for a lack of awareness or the shortcomings of bounties the world offers, and for the seeds of hope to germinate and flower, but such depths are the wells of my pragmatism that it perhaps becomes a void.

It's not okay for a man to feel this way, like those effortless Victoria-e modela [sic]* you speak about.

It is okay to not be okay, but unfortunately the care of others is curtailed by limitations they dont particularly want to be limited by.

• yes, I did a [sic] on my own writing!