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I am here. I was not, but now I am. I will not give an explaination. I will not even tell you why I will not give an explaination. The reasons are mine and mine alone. You can speculate if you like, I'll be interested in the responses.
 
But the question is, who am I?
 
Well, I think I've discovered the secret to this place. It's not really that difficult a secret to figure out. It has to do with the fact that you can have a name that people associate you with, and other names that nobody knows you by, and you can be anonymous. You can be one person to one group, and a completely different person to another group. Me, I don't do that, that's not why I'm here. But I know others do.
 
You can be several different people who go by one screen name. Or you can be someone who shows up once in awhile, and everyone or no one pays attention to, and then fade back into oblivion. But you never stop reading, do you?
 
You can be a completely imaginary person here. You can be that person you always wanted to be, and can't be anywhere but here, and pull it off.
 
Or you can be completely yourself.
 
But nobody really knows who I am here. Nobody knows me other than Travelr712, that's the only name I write under.
 
People here know some of the most intimate details of my life that can possibly be known, (I know this because they've been kind enough to share those details with their 'friends', and not always gotten them right) and they have no idea what I look like, what I have for breakfast (or if I even eat breakfast), how I do my laundry, or the amount in my bank account. The things that really affect my life, really drive what I do day in and day out, are oblivious to anyone reading my blogs, unless you spend allot of time searching out my comments and matching them to my posts and puzzling together an incomplete picture, and who has time to do that?
 
But still, you don't know who I am.
 
You know what I want you to know about me. You know some of the feelings that I decide to share with you, some of the thoughts, some of the impressions, a poem here and there (and not even all of those). But still, I'm a mystery.
 
You know me so little that you're not sure if you actually like me or not. Well, a few of you know you do, and a few of you know you don't, and the rest, well, you're not sure.
 
That doesn't bother me.
 
So, who am I?
 
That's the secret of soulcast. I'm just like you. I'm exactly who I want to be....
 
here...


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  • secretlife said on Apr 22, 2008....
    there's just so many reasons people post here trav.
    i couldn't possibly figure them all out.
     
    i believe like you do, that many have different id's for various reasons-
    perhaps different sides to one personality, perhaps to just try their hand at writing believable characters, perhaps perhaps perhaps.
     
    i know i'm one id.  have been for coming up on 2 years.
    i think i've given a pretty good overall view of who i am for anyone who cares to know.  not just the good stuff but also the not-so-good stuff. 
    i came here thinking i would journal.  gain some insights into myself.  get stuff i'd been holding inside out and see how it looked in print.  but i found that there were ways to get to know people here, and i enjoyed that.  and i have found that you can have real friendships here.  all surprises to me really.  and sometimes you can really help people.....by telling them that you've been in similar places, by empathizing, by offering to listen.....
     
    i think you can make this what you want to.
    you just have to figure out what you want to get from it.
     
     
  • travelr712 said on Apr 22, 2008....
    you, secret, are who you want to be... here...
  • Lucytorial said on Apr 23, 2008....
    who are you????

    WHO THE HECK AM I??????

    hold on who was that???

    hey old man... (lol) if only I could kill off secretlife for saying everything that needs to be said, any further conversation is obsolete... hmmm okay I have a plan.....

    I'll be back as soon as I figure out who I am and what the hay I'm doing here!
  • crybabylu said on Apr 23, 2008....

    I started out being me!  Then I got criticized and put down for my personal beliefs, and my political beliefs, so I think over time, just like in real life, little by little my position started changing.

    I don't like rejection here anymore than I do in the Real World, now I am trying to find my voice again here.

    I started hiding bits and pieces of me under different usernames.  If I wanted to be spiritual, I put it under God_Within, I am not doing that anymore. I am putting it under Crybabylu.

    If I wanted to be artistic, I used another username, I am not doing that anymore, I am only using Crybabylu, for all aspects of my thinking.  But I think it is terrible when we all are suppose to be somewhat anonymous, still can't be ourselves here, so it almost defeats the purpose of being here.

    Doesn't a person start blogging to get things out that are inside?  That is why I did. But the first day, and I am talking like I wasn't even here one hour when someone told me I was full of shit!

    I survived that, and pressed on and started dodging land mines, and now I am back to being simply me. If no one likes it, I can't help it anymore, I am not going to waste anymore time trying to be anyone other than me.

  • Lucytorial said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Dee, thats interesting. When I first came here I had a huge blow out and posted not only  my real name but a photo of me, no one else had done it I think... anyway I stopped thinking of aliases when I did that.  Some of my posts only get 1 comment, those are the ones that are important maybe just for me but they are my vent, quite unlike a lot of my posts, people don't know how to handle it.. a few do, mobil and paper are two.

    But now... well its the internet, I never know the sincerity of someone, I never really know who they are but I give them the benefit of the doubt based on their comments, or their actions here, if its rude I check out their blog and decide to either comment or not, block or not.

    I find it far nicer and easier to be me rather than just a part, there's only a small part here that people don't know, trav does, but he's about the only one apart from rupert.... the rest well I'm a little hidden, only a little.
  • crybabylu said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Sometimes I have to like laugh at myself that I take it too seriously. lfbno7 is always pointing that out to me, but I go in cycles I guess. Sometimes, I really think I am oblivious, then BAM, something will be said or whatever, and I come alive to it, until I can put it back into perspective again.
  • Lucytorial said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Lifes too short I'm told to be so serious...  **grin**

    and right now the suns setting and I'm heading off to cook dinner and get some much needed sleep {early starts kill my fun nights} yet I will still streak through life and soulcast so I can at least laugh at myself... just be you Dee, its the only person you know how isn't it?
  • lfbno7 said on Apr 23, 2008....
    We all react when someone pokes us with a pin.
  • crybabylu said on Apr 23, 2008....

    Lucy---You are right about that. I am glad I am re-learning that.

    lfbno7------You don't react when someone pokes you with a pin, you just poke them back with a bigger one.

  • pickersplock said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Very nice post, Trav!
  • Me-Myself&I said on Apr 23, 2008....
    i am "more" ME here on SoulCast than anywhere else. huh?!  and that's a fact. *smile* ~see ya
  • Twylarants said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Life is too short and too real to take anything that goes on here seriously.
    I'm not talking about someone's pain...of course that's serious. That's why some people blog in the first place, to vent, to cry, to reach out for help.

    But through it all we're anonymous. We sign off and go about our real lives.
    The trick is to keep yourself anonymous, and show respect to others by minding your own business and allowing them to remain anonymous.  And swearing a lot helps, too.
  • diabolicdame said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Interesting post trav.. I find its just too hard to be anything but yourself! At least for me it is.. 
  • uniquely-ironic said on Apr 23, 2008....
    I've never had the ability to keep track of multiple screen names.  I simply do not reveal those things that I am not comfortable associating with the one and only screen name that I do maintain.
     
    I'm usually pretty open about myself, but I still have a couple of dark corners that I haven't shared with pretty much anyone.  Not because I'm neccesarily ashamed of what is there, but because they are still to painful to pick up and examine.
  • starchini said on Apr 23, 2008....
    I like u trav!
  • Eilan said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Who are you?  Well, I heard you were Zayda, but everyone here is Zayda.

    *runs and hides from Zayda and trav*
  • Zayda said on Apr 23, 2008....
    [pokes Eilan with a stick]


    Heh...


    I'm exactly who I want to be here.
  • travelr712 said on Apr 23, 2008....
    wow, allot  to respond to, i'm honored.
     
    lucy - yes, life's too short to take everything so seriously, a fact that i need to be reminded of from time to time.
     
    cry - it seems most everyone starts here the way you did, and then gets criticized for one thing or another. another sad but true fact about soulcast, i'm afraid.
     
    lfb - yes, and it's that reaction that i think is most telling about a person's character.
     
    thank you pickers :-)
     
    me - anonymity allows you to be more free with yourself? perhaps through this site, you can learn to translate that to your real life?
     
    twyla - that was a great summation of what i was trying to say. thank you.
     
    unique - and i don't want to hassle with trying to keep multiple screen names straight. if i want to say something, i say it as travelr, or i just don't say it as all.
     
    star - thank you, i like you too :-)
     
    doesn't that mean you're zayda too eilan? :-P
     
    zayda - yeah, me too :-)
     
     
  • FUBAR said on Apr 23, 2008....
    What difference does it make if there are many people or only a few talking to themselves? It isn't like you are going to hang out with these people. We all come here to escape; some more than others. Most people I know on here or other sites write under many names.
  • wombat said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Good post!
     
    Just for the record, I only have ever written under one name also, crazy wombat.  I posted anonymously about 3 times 16 months ago, then quit that when I found out that it wasn't the "accepted norm."  I am just me, and I sometimes feel as if I have "exposed" myself and landed right back in the same place I always am in "real life."  I am known for my wackiness, innocent ignorance, and deep-thinking side.  I hope I am also known for being thoughtful and mindful of people's feelings, because that is what I try to do here on SC and elsewhere, too.
     
    I do have a bad memory problem, though.  I can't always keep up and remember what someone is talking about.  I do better, on my short time here, by sticking with the familiar--which isn't really a good thing, but is the best I can manage on my lame brain.
     
    No, I don't know "who you are" or who anyone is, except the one I have met in person.  (My good friend, quietone)
     
    Unless we all meet someday, I will never really know you, or anyone else here, but I am learning that we are all real and worth knowing. Thank you all for letting me sit in and just be myself!
  • Lucytorial said on Apr 23, 2008....
    cwazeeeee wombie... we know that, theres just a few of you in there though huh??? like everyone else.
  • travelr712 said on Apr 23, 2008....
    hmm, not sure i know how to answer you fubar...
     
     
    hmm, posting anonymously and exposing yourself wombie, what will you get yourself into next? :-P
     
    i don't even wanna begin to count how many voices are in my head lucy!
  • Lucytorial said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Yes it feels like a party is going on in mine sometimes... usually its a battle to figure out who is who.
  • Expendable said on Apr 23, 2008....
    A long time before SoulCast I tried to pretend I was a different person, one people would want to be with. I bled through.
  • Lucytorial said on Apr 23, 2008....
    huh??? are you saying you don't try to be anything you aren't  now?? you addle my brain sometimes ex.
  • Me-Myself&I said on Apr 23, 2008....
    i think you are right! *smile* it seems to be working.
  • Lucytorial said on Apr 23, 2008....
    its my cold, I get it now, but you know I like you as you are ex.
  • silverwhisper said on Apr 23, 2008....
    actually, trav, i disagree about something very specific.

    people usually try to obscure details about who they really are. and you know, when they deliberately try to obscure things, they almost invariably screw it up. that's why most alts are usually transparent--the creator slips up and accidentally reveals the true self.

    some people have a very distinctive writing style that would make identifying them easy just based on a sample of their writing--for example, gingersoul's writing style is quite unique. others have particular turns of phrase or expressions they often employ and yet others have idiosyncratic misspellings.

    when a person says something, he or she says whatever is intended--but almost invariably also communicates things that were not intended.

    so in a sense, IMHO we all know things about our fellow soulcasters that were not explicitly stated by them--in spite of their best efforts.

    ed
  • travelr712 said on Apr 23, 2008....
    well, that's true about some sc'rs ed. but as for me, i only write under travelr here, and i decide what to write and comment. there are MANY MANY things about me that the people here don't know, and never will, because i don't want them to, and they have no other way of finding out other than what i write about. that's what i was getting at.
     
    lucy, we should get together you and i and have a party! there'd be more people there than any other party i've ever been to! :D
     
    expendable, i tried that here for a few months, to be someone everybody would like. funny thing is, the harder i tried, the less people liked me. now i'm just being my normal, snarky self, and allot more people seem to like me. go figure!
     
    memy, it seems to be, and at least i'm happy, so that's something.
  • Lucytorial said on Apr 23, 2008....
    Mobil said something similar to me a while back, every now and then I write something and he reads between the lines, just like paperback {i don't write under alts} so yes when you don't intend to show things sometimes they become glaringly apparent.
  • queenparanoia said on Apr 23, 2008....
    i am me in here...
  • Twylarants said on Apr 23, 2008....
    I'm me, too...but I'd rather be Zayda. Have you seen the hair she's got?!

    Dibs on "snarkyself" as an alt username.
  • silverwhisper said on Apr 24, 2008....
    trav: with respect, i believe that the mere act of communication happens on both a conscious and unconscious level simultaneously. but no big deal, perhaps i'm a weirdo in feeling that way.

    ed
  • lfbno7 said on Apr 24, 2008....
    probably a weirdo all right
  • Zayda said on Apr 24, 2008....
    Twyla: I knew it. I knew you only wanted to be me for my hair!! :P
  • Sunshine_Mariah said on Apr 24, 2008....
    You are you! :-)
  • travelr712 said on Apr 25, 2008....
    lucy and ed - i agree with you, some things do subtley come through. like certain moods or phylosophies that you may think you're hiding. but that's not really what i was talking about. it's difficult for me to give an example of the things that you don't know about me, cause if i did, then you'd know, and i don't want you to. i guess one rather benign example would be that, no one here knows the status of my car loan, or even if i have one, and they have no way of knowing that unless i tell them.
     
    all right z, give twyla half your hair! and twyla, yeah, you can have it, for the right price :-)
     
    lfb - if i disagree, i risk pissing you off, if i agree, i'm calling ed a wierdo... quite the delema!
     
    sunshine - thank you for noticing :-)
  • crybabylu said on Apr 25, 2008....

    trav----psst...lffy was joking ed :)  honest, he was, ed knows that

    anyhow, I agree with your point, wish i would have had the good sense...here i was just a blogging away, telling my life story day to day thinking i am among friends, never realizing that to some people it is amunition in case they ever get PO'd at you....thanks, trav.

  • silverwhisper said on Apr 25, 2008....
    bah, i'm quite happy being a weirdo. i think weirdness is vastly underrated. :>

    ed

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