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            <title>Closeted Confusion</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(James)</author>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;Do you know what the suckiest part of it all is?&amp;#160; Reality.&amp;#160; It sucks.&amp;#160; That is strong for some - weak for others - but truthfully enough, it sucks.&amp;#160; Reality is absolute.&amp;#160; I&amp;#39;m not going into the hot topic of &amp;#39;absolute truth&amp;#39;, just skimming over the top of part of it - the absolutivity.&amp;#160; Check this out:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;pg&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #558811&quot;&gt;–adjective &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;td valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;free from imperfection; complete; perfect: &lt;span class=&quot;ital-inline&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;absolute liberty&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;So many times I try to convince myself that reality is relative - especially in &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; life.&amp;#160; Do you ever continue to tell people things about yourself that are not exactly true, but are to some extent?&amp;#160; Often times this is done when we think reality can change just because we say it out lound.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Like &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m going to&amp;#160;do better this time&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m doing &amp;#39;fine&amp;#39;&amp;quot; or even &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m not gay.&amp;quot;&amp;#160;Maybe in an effort to&amp;#160;make yourself sound better/worse than we really are&amp;#160;or even out of a fear that they might not enjoy our presence we twist things up a bit.&amp;#160; I struggle with this.&amp;#160; It&amp;#39;s called lying.&amp;#160; Actually, it&amp;#39;s more easily swallowed when pronounced stretch-of-truth.&amp;#160; This is just personal, I&amp;#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&amp;#39;s acceptance, then there is no reason for my existence in this situation.&amp;#160; If that&amp;#39;s the case, why not just walk away?&amp;#160; Guess cause I&amp;#39;ve done it this way, it&amp;#39;s worked &amp;#39;til now... only I feel different afterwards.&amp;#160; Basically, to keep myself from setting up another opportunity to pass up being honest - I dont always present myself the same everywhere.&amp;#160; I&amp;#39;m working on it.&amp;#160; It&amp;#39;s difficult for me.&amp;#160; It&amp;#39;s everything I can do to submit this blog entry.&amp;#160; But I am - it&amp;#39;s a step in the right direction.&amp;#160; Explanations aside, what I have been doing for the past year is working - I am going with that whole-heartedly.&amp;#160; Dont know exactly how it&amp;#39;s all coming together with my set backs and uncooperation at times, but it is.&amp;#160; Thank God for TRUTH and TOLERANCE - I am&amp;#160;still being tolerated.&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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