In grammar, the superlative of an adjective or adverb is in the greatest form of the adjective or adverb. This indicates that something has at least one feature to a greater degree than anything it is being compared to in a given context.

The radio is preaching the candy coated goo,
the record companies and the TV too.
No one rocks the boat,
terrified of trouble,
can’t tamper with the walls of their sterile Christian bubble.
It was never your point to get people saved,
you pad yourself with fluff just because you’re afraid.
I’m not afraid to point the finger now,
the choir’s so used to the preaching anyhow.

Sometimes I miss my early days as a blogger, when I was totally anonymous.

I won’t even link to my early blogs, because I said some things back then that were totally… blunt. Not inappropriate exactly, but my honest opinions about some teachers and later some people I worked with, stuff that I probably wouldn’t want them to read. That was nice though. I could be totally honest about my struggles, because I wrote anonymously.

I have to be so much more guarded now. It’s just not the same. I have to be so careful, because for me, total honesty is a scary place. The places I’ve been, the things I’ve done and the things that have been done to me are all scary, and people get uncomfortable when they hear those things.

I guess that’s humanity. People don’t want to hear the truth. They ask, “How are you?” but what they’re really saying is, “I don’t really care how you really are, I’m just following the social norms by creating small talk”.

I think there’s a desire inside all of us to be totally real. But we learn to to silence that desire, to create a facade of normality and to live as though nothing in our lives is wrong. Too bad.