truth? too many quotes, so little time

[lizmarie]

I've been thinking a lot lately about honesty. How honest am I, really? I try to be honest and open with my students, though it's not always possible. Still, when they ask me questions I try to answer as clearly and honestly as I can, and I try to be unbiased if possible. If I don't know something I say so

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[littleredhead]

i've been thinking about this all day, though now i have a headache and so my thoughts have gone fuzzy.

about half my friendslist are people i knew before we all got journals, and i think it constrains most of us. i've always had a self-censorship issue, and fairly often i write something stronger than my usual fluff, but don't post it to 'protect' someone else's feelings. (a bit warped, and probably not the healthiest of behaviours.) conversely, that also means i rarely end up with 'whiny' entries, so maybe it's just as well. i think of myself as a private person, on the whole, though i can't give a specific example of what i'd choose not to expose.

i would definitely agree with bandicoot, above, about finding your own internal silliness to share and examine - i'd far rather connect with someone about such things than about depressing grumbles.

[lizmarie]

I suppose everyone has their own purpose for writing. Catharsis is a perfectly acceptable purpose, as are recording, socializing, etc. I do think that we lose something by writing for other people. Though I guess you could argue that all good writing is written for someone else.

I do like the sense of community here, and it's led me to write much more than I otherwise would. It means that my words are not my own, and open to interpretation, but that's OK.