It's amazing how people change. I've reached a stage of self-evaluation once again. You know, one of those all-too-familiar stages in life where you can feel yourself evaluating everything you believe in. Some of what you once believed starts to seem so trivial, and some of what you once refused to believe was true seems all too real for comfort. I've noticed that almost every single time I do the introspection bit, it tends to follow this pattern.

The last time I went through one of these stages, I realised that I felt it a better option to be guarded with who you are, rather than letting people actually know. Better to put on a facade, I reason, than to drop your guard. And the ironic thing is, should I look at most of the people I know, this holds true for them as well.

Facades are funny things. It's amazing how the manner in which you carry yourself affects so many peoples' impressions of you on levels that they actually have no concrete evidence to judge you on.

A friend of mine went out to a club last week. Under the mask he wears, he's pretty much the same kind of guy as me. He had a couple of drinks, since that's what you tend to do when you're at a club and out to have a good time. So, consequently, he was slightly more confident than usual, and ordinarily, he's reasonably confident.

At one stage towards the end of the evening's festivities, a rather attractive girl, wearing a pair of jeans that had "Ho" and "ney" printed on the material that positioned itself over her left and right buttcheeks respectively, decided to dance on stage. Rob stood there, and watched her for a reasonable amount of time. He watched a reasonable number of guys go up to her and offer to buy her a drink, and he watched all of them get shot down. From what he could make out, they all offered to buy her a drink.

He, however, decided to be different. The clichéd "Can I buy you a drink?" pickup line didn't seem to be working for anyone else, so he decided to come across as somewhat more bastardly. He stood up and proceeded to walk over to her. She'd just been doing a wall dance, so thinking reasonably fast, he came up with a good line.

"I just wanted to let you know that you've made every single guy in here jealous of that wall.", he said to her. And guess who got asked to dance?

People find novelty intriguing....