the balance

I keep meeting new people and I'm like ah! You're awesome. I want to tell you all about my life. Connect. Except I realize that I can't. Because my life involves conflicts with other people that that person may know about. Or perhaps I'm a researcher, and they are the interviewee and maybe that might compromise the research. I realize that my conversations can easily turn into gossip, so I am trying to avoid that also. I just want to have open, honest conversations with people, which is so hard to do.