ali: lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off.

i like to lead multiple lives. not multiple lives as in multiple personalities, but multiple lives in that i don't want any one group of people to know too much about me. i think it's really important to keep a little mystery floating around in regards to who you are and why you behave the way you do. i don't like people to meet my parents, i don't like to mix groups of friends. i prefer when you can act a certain way in front of one group of people and another way in front of different people.

for example, i barely drink when i'm with a certain group of friends. we get coffee, we go out dinner, we go shopping, but we don't go out. not that i don't think it wouldn't be fun, but the way that our personalities blend, we find it more fun to sit around and play board games than get shitfaced. my friends from school, however, we based our entire beginnings of our friendship on how much we all enjoy going out and getting drunk. blackout best friends turned into real best friends. i behaved very differently with the people i had classes with and the people i lived with. there are a few friends who can make the jump between class, partying, gossiping, shopping, and doing nothing friends, but not many.

there are many facets to my personality, and i don't like to let one person see them all. i don't think of it as lying per se, but it is, essentially. and it is fun. it's fun to maintain some sort of air about you, to let people know that you are not as simple as you seem on the surface. maybe it's just me, but i think keeping things close to the vest is very satisfying. you get to decide who you want to be for an afternoon, for a week, for a month, with the option to alter you behavior depending on your location. it's an interesting experiment, and i recommend that everyone try it.