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    <subtitle>Is Change Possible?</subtitle>  
    
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        <title>Closeted Confusion</title>   
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        <p>Do you know what the suckiest part of it all is?&#160; Reality.&#160; It sucks.&#160; That is strong for some - weak for others - but truthfully enough, it sucks.&#160; Reality is absolute.&#160; I&#39;m not going into the hot topic of &#39;absolute truth&#39;, just skimming over the top of part of it - the absolutivity.&#160; Check this out:</p>
<p><span class="me"><strong>ab·so·lute</strong></span><span class="pronset"><span style="color: #116699">&#160;&#160;</span><span class="show_ipapr" style="DISPLAY: none"><span style="color: #880000"><span class="prondelim"><span style="font-family: arial unicode ms">/</span></span></span><span class="pron_toggle" style="DISPLAY: inline">&#160;</span></span><span class="show_spellpr" style="DISPLAY: inline"><span style="color: #880000"><span class="prondelim"><span style="font-family: arial unicode ms">[</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana"><span class="pron"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>ab</strong></span></span><span class="pron"><span style="font-size: small">-s<em>uh</em>-<strong>loot</strong></span></span></span><span class="prondelim"><span style="font-family: arial unicode ms">]</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #116699"> </span></span></p>
<div class="body"><span class="pg"><em><span style="color: #558811">–adjective </span></em></span></div>
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<td valign="top">free from imperfection; complete; perfect: <span class="ital-inline"><em>absolute liberty</em></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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<div class="body">So many times I try to convince myself that reality is relative - especially in <em>my</em> life.&#160; Do you ever continue to tell people things about yourself that are not exactly true, but are to some extent?&#160; Often times this is done when we think reality can change just because we say it out lound.&#160;&#160;Like &quot;I&#39;m going to&#160;do better this time&quot; or &quot;I&#39;m doing &#39;fine&#39;&quot; or even &quot;I&#39;m not gay.&quot;&#160;Maybe in an effort to&#160;make yourself sound better/worse than we really are&#160;or even out of a fear that they might not enjoy our presence we twist things up a bit.&#160; I struggle with this.&#160; It&#39;s called lying.&#160; Actually, it&#39;s more easily swallowed when pronounced stretch-of-truth.&#160; This is just personal, I&#39;m sure no one else does this, but sometimes I will get an amazing feeling of fear over me and think that if I do not gain this person&#39;s acceptance, then there is no reason for my existence in this situation.&#160; If that&#39;s the case, why not just walk away?&#160; Guess cause I&#39;ve done it this way, it&#39;s worked &#39;til now... only I feel different afterwards.&#160; Basically, to keep myself from setting up another opportunity to pass up being honest - I dont always present myself the same everywhere.&#160; I&#39;m working on it.&#160; It&#39;s difficult for me.&#160; It&#39;s everything I can do to submit this blog entry.&#160; But I am - it&#39;s a step in the right direction.&#160; Explanations aside, what I have been doing for the past year is working - I am going with that whole-heartedly.&#160; Dont know exactly how it&#39;s all coming together with my set backs and uncooperation at times, but it is.&#160; Thank God for TRUTH and TOLERANCE - I am&#160;still being tolerated.</div>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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