I'm actually still at work, but evidently not doing any, so I thought I'd blog to while away ten minutes.
I've recently joined a network via work where people can post thoughts and opinions (one of these new wave ideas, i guess!) and one of the first comments I've seen someone make is that 'people should remain true to themselves.'

Which brings me to the topic of this blog.
'Note to self'.

If you wanted to send yourself a message, or tell yourself the truth about something, what would you say?
Are people, in today's society, ever actually TRUE to themselves or are we always faking it? I'd imagine that people fake it so often in their normal lives, pretending they are something they aren't, that faking it to ourselves that we can handle something, or that we're getting somewhere with a problem, must be getting more common place.

I talked below about that voice, that 'but it HURRRRTS' voice that i quite often hear these days. that little bit of truth that remains sitting on my shoulder. I always KNOW how i truely feel, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to pretend to myself that actually, I feel fine. it happens all the time. those moments when you can't get to sleep at night and you tell yourself 'it will be ok, it will all work itself out' just so you can calm down and get some sleep. but if that's not how you really feel, then surely that's not being true to yourself.

if people were true to themselves 24/7 I'd imagine a completely different society. i'd like to think that people would be a lot more outwardly affectionate, but equally i'm sure they would be a lot more outwardly angry and aggressive. From my personal point of view, i'd do a lot more 'looking directly at' something and just confronting it than i do at the moment. I'd do a lot more letting out of deep sighs and saying 'look... this is how it actually is' instead of what i tend to do, try to rationalise something in my head.

hmm, feelings. that calls for a whole other blog topic.