A thing to remember; If you're going to pretend, remember, everyone's pretending. Rich poor, beautiful, or not. Everyones wishing they were something else, something better. All you have to do is lie with conviction. Act better and you'll become better :)
Chin up. Act.
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Act like your normal? I think most people do this. Become a better person because of it? Nope... Not that I've seen.
ReplyDeleteNo, act like youre better, braver, stronger than you are. More confident :P
ReplyDeleteConfidence is not the answer to all of life's problems. The answer is to be natural. Without that there is no point in life. Why should you shape yourself to your surroundings? Be who YOU are and embrace what you have. If you don't do that now good luck in years to come.
ReplyDeletewe shape ourselves to our surroundings as evolution forces us to, we are the tools of natural selection.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure people have succeeded at life through pretending.
I do indeed embrace myself, i love myself, but confidence isn't who you are, i think it's more of a state of mind.
What does LLB stand for?
LLB is my secret. Yes I'd agree that we shape to our surroundings but why should we. Do we all want to end up at a Gattacca like situation where every person is the same. The Nazi's tried that, and look where that led them. Being different is how the human race survives it is a proof of civilization. Anyone who has tried to pretend has come crashing down in the end, and no lover likes being on the recieving end of an 'I'm sorry for keeping this a secret from you' converation do they. LLB.
ReplyDeleteAnd so to some, select few, you share your heart and who you truly are, but to the world, a harsh great world, it is, at times neccessary to hide or pretend.
ReplyDeleteWe shape to our surroundings to survive, that is all. We do not need to essentially change, just adapt. Adapt, adopt and improve, as said by the bank robber in monty python's lingerie shop.
Being different I stand for, I hate like minded sheeps, who don't think about things, but there is a neccessity all the same to either fit into where you are, or move. Few can make things fit themselves.
You intrigue me.
"anyone who has tried to pretend has ended up crashing down in the end?" Not really true. You'll be surpised at the people who pretend. They tend to be the ones that you least expect. And yes, you intrigue me too.
ReplyDeleteThere are only a select few to whom you reveal your true self, and I suppose a slight reflection of this argument is shown here by the fact that I do not wish to reveal who I am. I don;t want to stick a foot out, take the plunge. Also how many times in the world do you have to hide to remove yourself from the situation. I can think of no true time when it all matters that much. and yes few can make things fit, but that is how you can tell a liar from the one who always tells the truth. The liar always shows a sign of things not fitting correctly, like a set of armour picked up by the wrong solider. You can never truly fit in, but the 'armour' fits close enough to protect you from problems. LLB.
ReplyDeleteThere are many people who pretend wthin your close friendship groups, some even more than others. But when you find out that vital fact about them, everything suddenly changes, you wonder whether you can trust them or whether other things have been false. Pretending is great until you are caught out. LLB.
ReplyDeletewhy be afraid to reveal yourself to me? In my eyes, of all people I'll be the least grudging to accept you.
ReplyDeleteThere is no plunge to take, unless you simply do not want to associate with the likes of me.
Do I know you? Bravo, you're intelligent and that's one thing to be born with, but youre knowlageable and that takes learning.
Is concealing the truth the same as lying in your opinion? If so, stop concealing, I won't be able to sleep now, you're too puzzling.
So don't pretend to your friends, at least, not intentionally.
ReplyDeleteNot in my experience. I know a select few who are hiding (I wouldn't say pretending, it makes them sound as if they are fake) and even though I know that they are hiding I continue to talk with them, to give them a chance to be who they want to be.
ReplyDeleteIt is not that I am afraid to reveal myself, though I feel that talking with the annonymity that comes behind three letters helps to convey a point which may be blurred if my true identity was revealed. And yes I do believe that concealing the truth is as good as lying. they are both considered on par in court, as testifying false witness is dealt with just as badly as not telling the court and jury everything you know. If it stands in courts which rule the society, why can't these rules stand within the society that they are supposed to police. Yes you do know me. Finally, you shouldn't pretend to your friends, but it is within these scenarios that most lying comes. How many times have 'friends' exagerated to you or how many times do you know that you have lied to your friends to 'fit in' become one of the crowd? LLB.
ReplyDeleteWhy those specific three?
ReplyDeleteBlurred because of who you are/what you stand for/what you are to me?
I'll admit, because night-time is an honest time, and because I don't even know who you are and yet..
I like bending the truth. To my own purposes.
I don't lie to my friends to be part of the crowd, we're too odd for it to matter.
But perhaps, I bend the truth.
Why those specific three? Because they add confusion to you, you are anxious and want to find out my identity. Why? because they are similar to yours, and you are worried they know too much about you. Scary when people can see into you isn't it. Yes night time is an honest time. Who knows why? But it reveals the true you and that is what is important. Who says you need to know there name to know who they are. LLB.
ReplyDeleteIt is not so much scary as thrilling. Not only does it imply you know me, and are following me, it implies you have the primary similarities, but alse you are the great opposite at the same time.
ReplyDeleteYou are the B to my G.
Which of course, if you know me, is what I have searched of my whole life. I don't know you, so I don't trust this feeling.
I feel snippets as to who you could be, but none grasp hard enough for a conclusion to form.
Well you are a brave person for feeling that way. And yes, perhaps I am the B to your G, which is what you have searched for your whole life. Let these snippets grow into larger thoughts. Then grapple with them and try to deal with the enormity of what you have just found out. LLB.
ReplyDeleteWhy would that make me brave?
ReplyDeleteEnormity? I havent found anything out, I'm just speculating, you make me think, but you don't give me answers. I think there are two people in my life I've talked to like this.
It doesn't make it real, this is just a dream, a big adventuree.
For facing confusion fully in the face and enjoying it. Many would have been freaked out by now, turned and run. That is why I have continued talking. I am intrigued by you as well. It is one big dream, though maybe it is also closer to the truth than you ever wanted to imagine. Enormity? The sense of dread, relief, confusion or anger when you find out my true identity. LLB.
ReplyDeleteOh confusion is the glorious calm before the storm. The sense of mystery is wonderful, it adds to the drama of life. Why not enjoy it? I wouldn't run, you're on my territory, and I'm slow at running anyways, so if you take away my flight, I have to fight, and be good at it. More than that I don't like either, I think you can sort most things out amiably.
ReplyDeleteI think, from what you think my reaction will be, you cannot possibly be anyone I thought you would be. Also, you assume it is inevitable that I will find out, which is interesting. I'd like to know at some point during my life, at least.
Do not worry yourself. You will in time. Sleep well now. For tomorow is but another day. LLB.
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