A web log?

"Blog" sounds so high-tech and self-important, but now that I'm a part of it, I hope those descriptions are no longer accurate. I try not to have any lofty ideals about how people will certainly be interested in my writing and in what I have to say...but at least this is a low-stakes medium through which to attempt...something. I admit that being honest truly frightens me because that is not who I am in real life. I do not think of myself as a liar, but rather as someone who will most definitely withhold the complete truth in order to save someone from pain or embarrassment. If that is noble or cowardly, I have yet to make a final determination. Even if I don't decide, it doesn't even matter: if you don't know someone is lying or withholding the complete truth from you, and you never know, is that a problem? These are, I believe, the true ethical problems that I mull over most days. And thus the name I have chosen for this blog: lifting the veil. Even if no one cares, I will at least pretend that there are people who read this blog. I will be attempting to record the brief moments of lucidity that I experience, sometimes every day, sometimes only every once in awhile. But this is my life, and I am one of the few people who sees the world as being covered in a veil and I am constantly trying to lift it. I refuse to believe that there is a man behind the green veil, although some days I think I do believe that. And perhaps when it is all said and done, these thoughts will at least cause others to consider...