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The internet is so odd sometimes. We get on here and we try so desperately to craft a persona for ourselves. Something we desperately want to be in real life but feel we can't. Do you want convince someone on here that you're a well dressed intellectual? How about someone who's hyper, bubbly and outgoing? Someone who's not afraid to speak their mind in real life?

We craft these personas for ourselves on sites like this because we feel we can not be them but then get online and we become them. I, for example, get on here. I'm outgoing, smooth talking (for the most part) and a plethora of other things. For the most part, I am how I am in real life. But I put a spin on it. Why? To gain respect and adoration from other people's made up personas?

I have plenty of people on here I respect. People I care about on different levels. It becomes so frustrating to see them sometimes though. I mean, like I said, I'm more or less the same person in real life. I am outgoing, I'll speak my mind. I'm a helpless romantic, a constant poetic and I have way to big of a heart. But some people on here, they're happy, outgoing but I see such sadness. Like someone desperately trying to claw their way out from a net with which they feel there's no escape.

We need to change our scenery. We need to do more. If I have added you as a friend it's because I see something in you. I don't just take people on randomly. I did behavioral analysis for almost a decade as part of my gig working with veterans and it extends it's abilities to the internet. I know most of you better than you'd ever be comfortable except. You all have the potential to theoretically be the person you want to be just as soon as you stop wasting energy convincing yourself why you couldn't be.

If you have an idea in your head of the person you want to be, and you've been portraying that person already that's the first step. BE that person.