Saying goodbye is never easy...
I have been Dap since day one of my travels via the internet. I started out as DaProwler on aol and I was instantly coined "Dap", of course cuz it was much shorter to type, but it stuck with me through all these years. I have had many joyous times being Dap and the people I have encountered...well 80% of them, have been priceless to me; however, I feel the time has come to let it end.
Over the past 6+ months I have been feeling stifled. I'm stuck in a world of words that just simply won't come out. I hate it!! My posts have been mediocre at best and my mood because of it has been even worse.
Having been enhanced with the mouth of a sailor, I now find myself not being able to let anything freeflow. It seems as though I'm surrounded by eyes that would burn at the mere "shock and awe" of my choice in vocabulary. This is unacceptable because I am not one to keep a watchful eye over those blasted P's + Q's.
There's a strange phenomonon of online life. It's so easy to allow those that we "don't know" into our world, our hopes, joys, quirks, and even failures...but to have those that you "do know" let in to such a sanctuary of emotion is difficult at best. It's not that you are attempting to portray yourself as something your not. it's because somewhere between the eye and the brain, all your words will be taken out of context, misinterpreted, and used against you for no other reason than someone wanting to get their jollies.
So you see while many may consider it letting them win. I look at it more as an opportunity to move on. A name is a name, it doesn't hamper one's ability to communicate with those they "don't know" (unless of course your name is "Harry Dick Johnson Jr" , cuz I don't quite think I could keep a straight face...lol). There are 2,175,824 possible combinations of names out there (btw...I made that number up...if you think I'm gonna do the math for that, you're crazier than I am ), but my point is that if I change my name, it doesn't change me. I will always be Dap, just not to the naked eye.
Cyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas |