Too few places to Hide a Body

We all know this of course, it shouldn't really be shocking, but there just aren't enough good places to hide a body.

Don't be calling the authorities just yet - I haven't done anything to warrant that type of behavior. Just throwing this out there. Put down the phone.

Your children know this too. They've played hide and seek, and we all learned early on, and so have they, that just because you can't see someone doesn't mean they can't see you. For while your head may be sufficiently hidden behind that tree, or covered just so with that pile of laundry beside your bed, or inside that cramped cupboard, the simple fact is that there's a pretty good chance a larger, more obvious part of your anatomy is on display, easily visible to those you are so carefully hiding from.

The internet is like that.

We have this assumption that we are hidden from view, safe in our daily lives, anonymous as it were, when we post on message boards; tweet our latest movements; shop online or even just browse the web looking for that next great deal on ebay. We know this to be just as false as being hidden from visible view while playing hide and seek - yet many of us seem very willing to ignore what we intrinsically know, regardless of how many times we've had our identities compromised. We're lazy. We don't take as many precautions as the "experts" tell us to in order to protect ourselves. We're adults; we don't want to be told how to do something, we want to be free to do whatever we want, however we'd like, whenever the urge strikes us.

Play with fire long enough, you'll get burned.

And so, eschewing the safety of true anonymity, here I stand before you, joining the too-many-to-count masses that have for a variety of reasons (most of them ego-issue related) taken to posting their thoughts and observances for you to read and comment on. Why? I really don't know. Maybe to finally silence those dear friends who have continually urged me to write something, anything! ? Maybe to satisfy some deep seated unresolved vanity? Could be. But more truthfully, I see this endeavor as a way for me to gain more knowledge about myself and my interests, allowing me to discover my own opinion on things and to value that opinion more and to grow in new directions as a person.

So. Let's see where this takes us. Let's explore the world together and search for treasure. And if we uncover a few bodies along the way, well, they weren't all that well hidden to begin with, were they?