Truth about people?
Aug. 21st, 2003 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pluralCan people change?
or more importantly
Can I?
some of you here
have known me for three years
a few even longer than that
and
many for varying periods shorter
some of you know me quite intimately
some casually
so I ask you
I know I have learned an incredible amount
about myself and how I interact with the world
in that time
but
has anything really changed?
am I the same arrogant foppish bastard
I have always been?
have you observed growth or decline in my person?
or is it just the same old shit
day after day
how many of you consider me a friend
versus a source of entertaining banter
or even both
What would be the one change you think I need to make most?
shoot from the hip
compliments and bullshit not requested
and
don't worry
the meaner you are
the more straight forward you are
the
more I will
appreciate it
cause if there is one thing I have learned
it takes guts to be a complete bastard
but in case some of you lack it
I have turned on anonymous comments
[and turned off IP tracking]
for this post
*grin*
anyway
I gotta run
but I was pondering this as I got ready tonight
and thought I would fire off a quick post
love love
me
or more importantly
Can I?
some of you here
have known me for three years
a few even longer than that
and
many for varying periods shorter
some of you know me quite intimately
some casually
so I ask you
I know I have learned an incredible amount
about myself and how I interact with the world
in that time
but
has anything really changed?
am I the same arrogant foppish bastard
I have always been?
have you observed growth or decline in my person?
or is it just the same old shit
day after day
how many of you consider me a friend
versus a source of entertaining banter
or even both
What would be the one change you think I need to make most?
shoot from the hip
compliments and bullshit not requested
and
don't worry
the meaner you are
the more straight forward you are
the
more I will
appreciate it
cause if there is one thing I have learned
it takes guts to be a complete bastard
but in case some of you lack it
I have turned on anonymous comments
[and turned off IP tracking]
for this post
*grin*
anyway
I gotta run
but I was pondering this as I got ready tonight
and thought I would fire off a quick post
love love
me
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ramble on.
Date: 2003-08-22 11:39 am (UTC)We've never interacted much, but I've always enjoyed your journal. You're witty, intelligent, candid, and very introspective. I don't know you as well as most on this list, but I've read your journal for over a year now, and that's my perception. I don't often comment, but I read all your entries. You don't know me very well, since I rarely update with anything of consequence myself.
At any rate, I don't see you as cryptic, really, but that could be more to do with me than you. I think that the arrogance seems to be hyperbole. I don't suspect that you're actually that way in person, having read so much about your values, commitment to friends and family. You seem to be very a very empathetic person. And as someone that's guarded and extremely paranoid about the internet myself, I admire that you put so much out there.