I wish I could be like "The Mask" :)

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I'm like the Jim Carrey character... mister nice guy - mild mannered and constantly taken advantage of for it and tragically bad luck.

But I've got this fun-loving side that's just longing to BURST out and WOW everyone! Not necessarily to be the NT "life of the party" but to just get out there in the world with a ton of confidence and just act how I feel like acting! No pretending to be like everyone else trying (and failing) to make people like me!


...and I just love being goofy.

Maybe the "perfect job" for you would be some type of "funny-guy hero", like The Mask, or that blue Genie guy from the Disney cartoons? But then again; these two guys do put on masks and special appearance (in a cartoony, funny way) to look like anything else than themselves...

I think the "key" for us mild mannered and easy-to-take-advantage-of guys, is to pick the right company: In my experience, there are many settings where just blurting it out to "WOW everyone" is doomed to fail, but once in a blue moon you find a place and some company, where you can be the "funny guy of the night", in the positive way mind you! This happened for me at an online chat, where I became a regular and "things weren't quite the same fun" when I wasn't there...! unfortunately that place was shut down for technical reasons a few years ago...

I've often wondered about that. I'm reminded of the TV programme Dear John (here in the UK) about a divorcee (John) who joins a group of other divorcees who meet up to talk about their problems. Then Kirk joins the group; tight leather trousers, silk shirt unbuttoned down to his belly-button, and a huge medallion dangling over his overly hairy chest. He swaggers about, talking about 'chicks' and 'getting on down' (it's a 1980s sitcom!). One day John pays an unexpected visit to Kirk's home, and finds a mild-mannered, bespectacled loner in a pullover and slacks. it turns out this chap dresses up in the snazzy gear and becomes Kirk to try and overcome his shyness and depression. Alright, this is exaggerated for comic purposes, but I've often wondered what it would be like to invent a totally different character from my usual one, someone who would do things I wouldn't normally do and go places that I would never normally go to. I guess at the end of the day, you just need to live with yourself, and you shouldn't need to have to do all that dressing up and pretending stuff. Nice daydream, though!

Yeah, and I'd like to have Cameron Diaz as a girlfriend as well

Ed Almos