Complex Numbers

Secrets and Lies

What is your secret love that most people don’t know about? Don’t reveal anything you wish you really keep secret, and please, don’t say it’s writing. Step out a little here. It can be anything, anything at all. For example, I love the weather, no matter if it’s raining, snowing, windy, hot, cold, whatever, that day. Long story that I won’t explain here, but I love the weather.

Halle Berry. Especially in the cat suit.

Seriously, though - I think I'm pretty open about my likes and dislikes, especially here. I don't see any reason to keep these things close to my chest; I never bought into the whole "don't show emotion" bullshit. If I don't show emotion, it's because I'm either playing poker, or I'm not feeling emotion. While I prefer it that way, I'm still human, not Vulcan. Pity.

Now, if I had a thing for something that was forbidden, then I'd keep it a secret - but in that case, it would stay a secret, even here.

Nah, for the most part, I recommend being open about these things. I don't mean you have to be rude about it like I sometimes am ("Budweiser? That's not really beer." "No thanks; eggplant is disgusting.") I should probably tone that shit down when someone's just trying to be nice and offer me something. Sure, some likes are embarrassing, and rightly so, like having a love for "reality" TV or those ugly-ass big-head figures they sell in comics retailers. But if that's you, own it. Don't let me or anyone else pressure you into liking something you don't, or vice-versa.

And not everything is binary. I don't like IPAs, in general, but there are occasions that I enjoy drinking particular ones. Like if I'm eating barbecue, especially if it's in a small town in the middle of the desert and it's a ghost pepper IPA. There are some things I neither like nor dislike, but simply accept as a fact of life, like tomatoes. I just can't work up any kind of emotion about tomatoes, either way. They're just... there. Put one on my burger, or not, and I won't give a damn.

Everybody has secrets. But for me, my preferences aren't one of them.