If You Really Knew Me....

A few days ago my best friend told me about this show she was watching on MTV, and today I was given the opportunity to see it for myself. It's called If You Really Knew Me.



http://www.mtv.com/shows/if_you_really_knew_me/series.jhtml



On the website you can watch full episodes and recaps, I most definitely recommend it!



Anyways, the premis of the show is that these 2 people go into high schools and film what really goes on. Bullying, cliques, the whole shabang that we all know goes on in every school. They bring the students together and make them get real with each other. I've had chills the whole time watching this, it's so amazing. Our world would be SO different if we were just real with each other like this all the time, instead of putting on these facades and faces for people. I'll be the first one to stand up and say a lot of the time I try to hard to put on a brave face and hide what I'm really feeling, with the excpetion of a few people who I can truly be real with and they can be real with me. But why?? Why does our society tell us that we can't be real? That we have to put up this detached front? Make fun of other people so we feel better?



They do a lot of incredible activities, making it completely real what is going on with people you pass in the hall everyday. A lot of the times we aren't even aware of the problems our friends are facing...because we don't ask.



Vinny, one of the Challenge Day leaders who goes to all these schools, shares his story and how he felt trapped to hide his emotions when his mom died. And NONE of his friends (who were with him when he recieved the news) told him they were sorry, or that they were there for him or could call him no matter what time. He had no support. Can you imagine that?? For some people that's a reality. How incredibly sad is that??



The feeling of being real is a mutual thing, I mean you can't just wear your heart on your sleeve and be real and have that not reciprocated. Can you imagine how different our world would be if we put ourselves in other people's shoes, thinking about our actions and their effect before we did anything, if we were real with people?



So the question is....what would people see....if they really knew you?