coming_out just a kid to people is easier than I thought. it just took realising that anyone who's really worth it doesn't mind this is easy to say while i ignore the possible necessity of coming out to my family one day maybe they won't mind either? 071023 ... jane mine sure didn't. 071024 ... just a kid both easier and harder. often I feel awkward about it. (why? I don't know. I'm a pretty awkward person, though it's not a secret) people ask me where I live.. a probably appropriate answer is "with my girlfriend", but sometimes I avoid the question instead. sometimes my friends catch my hesitation and free me from the question somehow; and I feel like I'm hiding in a closet for no reason, since I'm not. i did not expect to have to come out to people. I used to identify as straight. I really like living in a world where this isn't really a contradiction and people don't expect you to be oneandonlyonething i am learning what a gay friend taught me a year and a half ago; that you have to come out constantly, not just once. 080415 ... Doar than bring yourself out from hiding in the intolerable hatred that society has imposed upon you. In other words, live free and in comfort in your own life. I wish you the freedom to express yourself, in what ways you want to, in order to be who you want to be. My only request is that, by doing so you respect everyone around you. I've said my piece. Live long and well in your own skin. . 080415 what's it to you? who go blather from