open letter
May. 26th, 2004 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alenxa_classicYou are better at this than I am, which I suppose is to be expected, as you have had more time to hone your skills. You are also better at various other kinds of everyday acting, which must be an invaluable aid to the facade now covering your ass. However, even knowing what I know of your operations, I will not say that you are smarter than you look, because your assumption that people will think that of you, and not cease to believe it, is what makes it untrue.
What you seem to be incapable of realizing is that, like so many other substances you are acquainted with, secrets are addictive. Pulling the wool over collective eyes is as heady as any pill you can wheedle, and as hard to stop from becoming a lifestyle if you have no will to fight it. I know this, and I have determined it in less time than you have had to become entrenched in your ways. The straight and narrow may be more difficult, but there is less chance on that road that the good faith of others will run out just as you most need a refill.
You may not know how to age paper, or to weave truth so as to just avoid a lie, or to confess to your shortcomings in the teeth of fear. But these are for those of us who do not have the luxury of appearing incapable of independent thought. And I will tell you for free that those of us in that group are not pleased when we see someone who could, with effort, be one of us instead misallocating their efforts to our disadvantage. What you most fail to realize is that your actions affect many more people than just you, and that if the actions in question are preventable but concealed, the rebound on you is likely to be magnified. And, because you believe you are succeeding in all your attempts at misdirection, you will never realize this. Not even when someone else seizes the opportunity you will one day leave open to ensure that you can no longer continue your accustomed practices in your current environment will you allow yourself to believe that you are at fault; you will assign the blame rather than capitalizing on the responsibility.
And I will no longer be a party to putting that off.
What you seem to be incapable of realizing is that, like so many other substances you are acquainted with, secrets are addictive. Pulling the wool over collective eyes is as heady as any pill you can wheedle, and as hard to stop from becoming a lifestyle if you have no will to fight it. I know this, and I have determined it in less time than you have had to become entrenched in your ways. The straight and narrow may be more difficult, but there is less chance on that road that the good faith of others will run out just as you most need a refill.
You may not know how to age paper, or to weave truth so as to just avoid a lie, or to confess to your shortcomings in the teeth of fear. But these are for those of us who do not have the luxury of appearing incapable of independent thought. And I will tell you for free that those of us in that group are not pleased when we see someone who could, with effort, be one of us instead misallocating their efforts to our disadvantage. What you most fail to realize is that your actions affect many more people than just you, and that if the actions in question are preventable but concealed, the rebound on you is likely to be magnified. And, because you believe you are succeeding in all your attempts at misdirection, you will never realize this. Not even when someone else seizes the opportunity you will one day leave open to ensure that you can no longer continue your accustomed practices in your current environment will you allow yourself to believe that you are at fault; you will assign the blame rather than capitalizing on the responsibility.
And I will no longer be a party to putting that off.
