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#3: Third and Fourth Letters

These letter were written just a few days after "coming out" to myself.  I was still barely accepting myself at the time and it took tremendous courage to even write this.  But the writing of it was very freeing and I was continuing to gain valuable insight and growing at a tremendous rate. The Third Letter: I don’t plan on publicly “coming out”.  I see no purpose for it.  But if someone asked, I think I would tell them. So I’ve been thinking about what I would tell them.  Maybe it would go like this: Him:  You’re sure sensitive for a guy -- are you gay? Me:  What, no! That’s what I keep saying in my mental role-play with myself.  Apparently it’s going to take a while to get used to this. I think I’m struggling because I don’t associate myself with the term “gay”.  A gay guy is someone that wears tight clothes that are a just to flamboyant to look normal on Brad Pitt, and someone who is likely to be caught giggling, talks with a high/soft...