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enthusiastickA few months back I was chatting with Abby on AIM, as I often do. We were discussing Love Actually, a movie I love unreservedly. I would go so far as to say I lurve it. And we were discussing in particular the scene involving Andrew Lincoln holding up a series of cue cards for Keira Knightly. "But for now, let me say," he tells her silently, "without hope or agenda, just because its Christmas -- and at Christmas, you tell the truth -- to me, you are perfect."
"Yeah," sighed Abby cynically. "But nobody actually does that."
That conversation has been percolating in my brain ever since, and a while back I resolved to change the situation, if only for myself. And so it is with great pleasure (and more than a little trepidation) that I announce the first annual At Christmas You Tell The Truth project. I've even given you two weeks warning, so you can get your thoughts in order.
At Christmas You Tell The Truth: For 10 days, between 12:01 AM on Yule (December 21st) and 11:59 PM New Year's Eve (December 31st), I hereby pledge to tell the truth, if I'm asked. I don't mean I'll tell it non-stop; I know better than to imagine that the little white lies that lubricate socialization can be done away with completely for that long a stretch. But during that interval of time if you ask me something, anything you think is important (and perhaps prod me a little if I seem to have forgotten), I promise an honest answer. If you've ever been unable to get a straight answer from me about something, this will officially be the time to ask.
Hopefully this won't end disastrously for me, and I can make an annual thing out of it. I don't necessarily expect anyone to join me in this ill-advised little pledge, but I want to make it clear that you're all more than welcome to. And if you want to get all meme-like about it, feel free to copy & paste the italicized text above into your own livejournal or blog or what-have-you.
Love actually is all around.
"Yeah," sighed Abby cynically. "But nobody actually does that."
That conversation has been percolating in my brain ever since, and a while back I resolved to change the situation, if only for myself. And so it is with great pleasure (and more than a little trepidation) that I announce the first annual At Christmas You Tell The Truth project. I've even given you two weeks warning, so you can get your thoughts in order.
At Christmas You Tell The Truth: For 10 days, between 12:01 AM on Yule (December 21st) and 11:59 PM New Year's Eve (December 31st), I hereby pledge to tell the truth, if I'm asked. I don't mean I'll tell it non-stop; I know better than to imagine that the little white lies that lubricate socialization can be done away with completely for that long a stretch. But during that interval of time if you ask me something, anything you think is important (and perhaps prod me a little if I seem to have forgotten), I promise an honest answer. If you've ever been unable to get a straight answer from me about something, this will officially be the time to ask.
Hopefully this won't end disastrously for me, and I can make an annual thing out of it. I don't necessarily expect anyone to join me in this ill-advised little pledge, but I want to make it clear that you're all more than welcome to. And if you want to get all meme-like about it, feel free to copy & paste the italicized text above into your own livejournal or blog or what-have-you.
Love actually is all around.
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Date: 2005-12-06 06:55 pm (UTC)This kind of stuff truly boggles my mind.
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Date: 2005-12-06 08:05 pm (UTC)I don't want to give the impression that I'm a pathological liar, or anything like that. But its fair to say that I do my share of being cagey and avoiding questions, for one thing; and in the process of not wanting to hurt people's feelings, or wanting to give the best possible impression of myself, I tell a few half-truths here and there as well.
Let's be clear about this: I'm not expecting a deluge of responses, or even necessarily any at all, although I would welcome them if I got them. I'm just going to attempt to be especially honest with myself and others, for those 10 days, as a social experiment.
If you're really that truthful, full-time (and from what I know of you, you might be) then good on you. I'm in a slightly grayer area, is all I'm saying.