#elephantsintheroom

[kingrobery]

Back in the studio after a LOOOOONG time... “When this leaks in the streets all my cats might go violent!” #ELEPHANTSINTHEROOM with @jun6ix #musicandstrengthla #losangeles #hiphop (at Highland Park, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2FoK_4gyLo/?igshid=uvs9h1h2yod2

[madideasband]

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Вчера с мэтрами рок индустрии Екатеринбурга записали новый хит 😎🤘🏼 #ТанцуйРвиТанцполы #ВасилийФадин #JamMusic #Elephantsintheroom #Synoptix #Sundoze #ГимнТеней

[sindyelefante]

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¡Que salgan los elefantes! A propósito de la marcha del orgullo, es este domingo en Bogotá. #orgullo #orgullogay #gay #gaypride #elefantesenelcuarto #elephantsintheroom

[lightwalkjourneyrising]

Denim inadequacy

It isn’t unique of the human species to ostracize an individual based on differences. To have lack of compassion or feel pain is often debated… Nevertheless, I wonder if it is linked to our greater development of the prefrontal cortex; you know, the area that plays a role in deception/ lying.

Like here we are, these advanced creatures at the height of the animal kingdom and civility. Yet, we fail largely to give adequately to society, ones we say we love most, and truth be told, ourselves. Why?

Are we so enlightened in all our human intelligence, that even empirical scientific data suggests that liars will become more successful adults, that we fall victim to the most bold and obtrusive lies!?

Yeah. I’m thinking so. We lie to ourselves everyday. We allow ourselves to be lied to, convinced and persuaded. We grow comfortable in ritualistic patters and nestle in to convenience as we do our favorite blue jeans.

So, we hurt people. Say sorry. Or allow the sorries to keep coming until they are just there for the principle, and we wait.for the action…to come. That. Never. Does.

We’ve been there. At some point. And if you’ve been lucky and successful in seeing that weighty beast of an elephant in the room, you've opened the door and let him out. Because you can only confront that thing so many times acknowledging… It’s an elephant.

Relating to how we treat others, stop treating them like the old blue jeans. I’ve thought on this. I love a good pair of jeans… But things happen and they may get shoved into the back of the closet and u may find yourself wishing they fit like they once did. Complacency and vanity keeps you hanging on to the way things once were. Just fix it. Make things right. Love and give HOW people need, and not only how you see the image of ideal.

I feel that perhaps, identifying unauthentic behaviors in ourselves and others, and knowing how to interpret the information and responding keenly makes more a successful individual than actually being a liar.

What a world we would have, thriving with pure intention and full culpability. I guess the “measurement of success” being weighted in the referenced study, is perhaps monetarily, materialistically, and poorly defined.

-Chrissy