The Pretender**

[baasheep]

"Fake it til you make it" is a often used saying. It's true for me in so far as I am not always the confident jokey person I come across nor the social butterfly my friends would like to think I am. Take tommorow night. Best friend and myselfs birthdays are about three weeks apart so we traditionally celebrate midway. This year it is her choice of

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[pollyhyper]

If it's any consolation, there are LOTS of people fakin' it.

And also, the Pretender was supposed to be set in Delaware. Random factoid.

[crowjoy]

I hear alot about fake it til you make it, and I think there's some good advice in that. The one I've latched onto that's similar is "you can do anything you have the balls to fake long enough to learn." I like it better because it results in learning. As in, not faking it to "make it" (whatever that means... get through the evening without puking on your shoes? not sure) but learning how to do something and incorporate it into you character. Cuz you know what? if you feel like you're faking it and you don't like that, then don't do it! Maybe you're faking the wrong stuff?

I know you're lovely (and yes, pretty boobs!) and excellent company but I would hate to think of you cringing the whole time. Surely there is a compromise? Learning how to have a good time in a way that's genuinely you, rather than faking it, maybe?