I almost forgot to tell you you're beautiful

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if we just told people how we felt about them without restriction - the good things. When you find someone to be a simply beautiful person, you just tell them. When there's someone you really want to get to know, but can't find the right words or moment, you just tell them. But that almost never happens. We may find subtle ways to express those things, but in very indirect ways. Ways that always leave us an out and never commit us to revealing what we really feel. We carefully place our true feeling in the shadows of our insecurities and dance around them. We take turns revealing only the smallest pieces so in the face of rejection we can protect our dignity, turn off the lights, and say, 'oh no, that's not what I meant at all...'. Why can't we just come out and say what we feel? For a moment I thought, but then what fun would life be? Just for a moment. Then I realized just how much more fun it would be.