The Fine Fine Line Between What Is & What Isn't.

As a so-called writer, it is part of my job to decieve my audience. To tell a story that will intrigue them and evoke some kind of emotion in themselves. Or even, just to get them to think.

I myself, as a writer, aim to inspire people, although many a time, I don't go about this the right way. Although, who's to say what is the right way? I often decieve my audience in my stories, making them think something, and then it turns out to be something else, well, that is a twist in the plot, and it engages the audience with the text.

I have these 6 friends. 3 I spend a lot of time with. 3 I've barely met. Yet I feel it easier to talk to and spill my heart out to the 3 I've barely met. I feel like I am constantly decieving those whom I spend a lot of time with. I don't tell them everything, and we have this way of acting when around each other. And sometimes, it bugs me. Yet I dont say anything. I call it the "Reality" side of my life. The other side, well I call it "Virtuality".

Now, we all know that Virtuality and Reality are two different things. But are they really? I mean, the people in this virtual world [i.e. the internet] actually are real, I am as real as these words I am writing in this article. Yet, we seem to mistake this all for being virtual and maybe thats where our problems lie.

We find it easier to tell people online our problems because we dont actually fully determine them as "real" in our minds, yet they are almost as real as the sun does shine. I use the word almost, because on the internet, deceit is one of the most common techniques, we all know and hear about the stories of how a 75 year old paedo disguised himself as a 17 year old boy to get his way with girls [objectification of women much? haha].

So, if we use the term "virtuality" is that actually what it is? Because in this "virtuality" there are things that are real. So wouldn't it just become "reality" ? How do we actually determine, what is, and what isn't reality? And how and when do we decide to stop using deceit as a form of hiding what we really feel?