Tradeoff

 One of my favorite things about myself is that I'm not stupid.

If someone is hinting at something around me, I pick up on it. 

It makes communication easier, although not as easy as if people just outright said how they were feeling.

That would be the easiest overall.

Unfortunately, that's not how this world works.

People talk in codes and we are left to decipher each other and play the games and go through the motions.

We are forced to learn about each other. 

When you look at it as simply learning about another person, the tradeoff seems okay. 

Slightly more difficult communication isn't half bad when the tradeoff is learning the heart of another.

-Emma Lancaster