I have to confess.. .   .

For the past couple of years, I have been conflicted….

There are two things that have always bothered me about my writing, and(i think) always will…. these two things are:

1. Does my personality show in my writing?
2. If it does, how will people handle it?

I have read so many blogs, blogs that are considered royalty among the rest of us blogs, blogs that generate over 100-thousand people per month. And if there’s any commonality with their success, it is that these power players sound very intelligent and formal. Sometimes I think that if my words could actually portray my personality, from a self-help “professional” standpoint, I’d sound barbaric.

I have been lying to you…

In the blogging world, conventional thinking says that I should portray myself a certain way to build an audience…a way that has been keeping me from showing you my real-self.

The Good News…

But, I found an article, and it’s called  “How to be Real Online And Get Paid For It”.  What?! You mean to tell me I can be myself, and still have people enjoy my writing??

Just to put this into perspective for you, hearing this for me is like the equivalent of The 2nd coming of Jesus——where has this advice been all my life?

Here’s a passage that has really resonated with me from the article:

Marie and I spoke a few months back and she essentially gave me permission to stop being a humor guy on one site and a tech guy on another site. She told me it was okay to have a bunch of ridiculously disparate interests, and to toss them all together, and consequences be damned.

“You can just ‘be Johnny B. Truant,’ and talk about whatever the fuck you want on your site,” she said.

Because, you know, Marie says “fuck” a lot.  So yeah.  That was good advice.

Now, you may be asking yourself, 1. “What does this post have to do with my father??”, or 2.”How does this article even affect me, and where are you getting at Parker….I don’t even write!”

Ok, Good Question…and thanks for asking!

Number One: About your father… I had to get your attention. Yes, I know. I have abused your trust. I’m sorry! But I promise not to cry wolf, too often…besides, if this wasn’t an important post I wouldn’t have lied, a little.

Number Two: How does it affect you personally? Well, we all at one point have tried fitting in, even if it meant not revealing our true selves. Admit it! I know you have…don’t lie to me.

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The funny thing, is that all this “new information” I’ve come across…is exactly what I preach to my clients on my seminars.  For example, most people think that their job will bore others, therefore, not worth mentioning.

Which is total bullshit. In a country(the U.S.) where most people spend more time with their co-workers than even their own family, no one wants to talk about work? By not revealing what you do for a living is basically saying,  “I don’t want to tell you about two/thirds of who I am.”

Considering most of us spend more than two/thirds of our lives working. Now you may say, “No one wants to hear about my job, I’m an Engineer!”  No. You’re wrong. Your occupation doesn’t matter, what matters is how you describe your job–combined with your enthusiasm(tonality, facial expressions etc.).

I don’t wanna get too deep into this topic because I’ll steer away from the main point of this post, but I’ll tell you this. Not being myself through my writing is no different from lying to you(the reader). And I don’t want to do that, anymore.

Besides, in person I can be quite charming….or that’s what my mother tells me, at least. So Damnit! Why wouldn’t people like me for who I am online, if I’m great with people in person?!

Well, I’m here to say NO MORE.

Here today before you I make a stand. A stand that I shall no longer be fake, untrue to myself, and you. I will no longer be a victim of the fear that no one will appreciate me for me and my writing. I will not fake the phunk as I believe it’s going to only get better from here on out.

I now want to end this post with a couple of words from my vocabulary, words that I’ve always wanted to say on this blog and past blogs for a very, very long time(but didn’t say due to fear that I’d loose you as a reader….however, Screw-that-noise!)…..

And if your eyes are sensitive to words, please exit this browser now….and if not, scroll down.

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• prick bandit

• fart-knocker

• Penis

• Shit

• poopfish

• shitter twiddler

• plum squirrel

• wank basket

• shag burger

• Jizz stain

• weiner wheel

• hermaphrodite lover

• herpes narcissist

• arse nazi

• Fuck

• F-U-C-K,

• arse store

• ass badger

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*Whew*….I feel Liberated.

Tagged as: confess, father, fitting in, teaching

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