Nobody Actually Knows You
Daily Life

Nobody Actually Knows You

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 30, 20262 min

You have people in your life. But no one knows what's really going on. You've gotten so good at performing fine that nobody thinks to ask — and you've stopped offering the truth. The gap between who people see and who you actually are is where loneliness lives.

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You can't remember the last time you told someone the truth about how you're actually doing.

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just an absence of people, it's the absence of being truly known. We live in a very performative

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You can't remember the last time you told someone the truth about how you're actually doing. And even though you have plenty of friends around, you're starting to recognize that loneliness isn't just an absence of people, it's the absence of being truly known. We live in a very performative culture where it's easy to answer good or great to the question, how are you, then actually open

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up about anything real. Where it looks better when you've got it all together. Where we constantly compare ourselves to one another. And where even though it isn't talked about, it kind of feels like there's this secret race with an ever-moving finish line that we all didn't sign up for, but somehow are on the roster for. And it feels like the second we're honest about how we're

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really doing, we've lost the race. But scripture has something interesting to reveal to us about breaking down our walls and being real and relatable with one another. James 5 16 says, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

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