When you feel like committing suicide, you don't long to die.
You long to commit.
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Talking behind a pseudonym enables these kind of writings. Often amazed what people talk about when they have a mask on.
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Yeah, it’s a wonderful coincidence of opposites how veiling oneself allows for a deeper sincerity of expression—to be ‘realer’...
I feel messages from beneath the veil of personhood are very refreshing in today’s world, where everything feels more or less like a pretense.
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Exactly. That's one reason why Reddit and pseudonymous Twitter is appealing.
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Reminded of a saying: "To make someone tell the truth, give him a mask."
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