Say Cheese :)

“Love is patient; love is kind
 and envies no one.

Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; 
never selfish, not quick to take offense.

There is nothing love cannot face;
 there is no limit to its faith, 
its hope, and endurance.

In a word, there are three things 
that last forever: faith, hope, and love,
but the greatest of them all is love.”

The Bible.

I m quiet an open person. How open are you? There are people who are very open and few who are never open. People who are not very open are like a door, which is all the time locked for many reasons like they don’t trust others, they don’t want to share, they have a password-protect for everything.

When we are not open, It hinders our relationship and we also hesitate to start new relationships. To start being open with other is not going to come easy. We have to work on it every time.
The door never remains wide open or shut tight. We all have moments in our lives where we tend to open up to people who are very close. Off course it’s not necessary for us to reveal every little detail of our life to every single person we meet. Same time keeping the door completely closed is not healthy too.

Being more open is like growing. To grow we need to read, learn and know about many things. The more we know, we will be able to relate someone at some level and we can make more connections. We will have some common things to share and to move further. So knowledge can help us to feel more open.
Another important fact is our Body language. Some people keep their arms folded. legs crossed and their body will be angled away from the people they are talking to, they don’t give eye contact they just look around as they are lost in their thoughts or they are thinking what they have to say next or thinking something entirely different. This makes us to focus on ourselves and stops from connecting with other people. And some people don’t smile as often they should. Smiling and having good Body language makes us appear much more open.

Sometimes we are afraid to get close or get open with people, we are scared that they will judge or dislike the unusual topics that we speak. These fears will most of the time hold us back from expressing or being open. Without sharing we can never be truly open. So it’s good to ignore the fear about what people will think or say. You never know, how well people can accept you and would be surprised to know how much we have in common with others.

When we communicate with others, we need to be more specific. When someone ask us“How was your day?” We respond, “Good. Yours?” I think we need to be more open-up and give some more details. When we open to them, they feel more connected to us and they try to share and feel more comfortable to open up.
Being open with other will take time. When we begin to open up we will have lot of questions in our mind. Like what to say, how to say. It’s not easy for every one.