Looks like the real thing...

The reason for starting a blog in the first place is to get the dirt out from under the ol’ carpet. Recently in a note on facebook, a friend of mine revealed that she had been trying not to tell any lies for the past year. I responded in jest that “I have built a whole persona around my lies! What happens when I ditch them and I am left basically naked?” I guess its less joke than I’d like, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. What would it be like to live completely out in the open, and be totally up front with people? I’m imagining it will be a little scary, but ultimately liberating. I’d like to stop worrying about what is socially acceptable, and the things you aren’t supposed to tell people. I was raised to keep anything unflattering, objectionable or otherwise “strange” private. Turns out, I’m nowhere near as conservative as my parents, I don’t care for the white picket fence illusion, and I’m not going to be ashamed of my “deficiencies”.

I wish I could tell you that everything I have to say would be pleasant, or that I’d be sticking a heaping pile of my signature sarcasm and wisecracking into all that is written, but that’s not where I’m at right now, and I feel like I’m on a quest for the truth…about me, about you (whomever you are) and the world at large. Sometimes it will be light, funny, amusing, wonderful, and sometimes it will be deep, dark and painfully dry, like life itself. So here I go…any feedback can be left here or sent to leeshi78@gmail.com, or to my facebook account…as of late, I’ve been a veritable facebook whore…

And, just in case anyone was wondering, yes, the blog title comes from the Radiohead song, and “like the real thing” is from the lyrics. That song always resonated with me in a deep and personal way. The title takes on many, many meanings to me…if you aren’t familiar, I can change that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O10HGNOkyIk