﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>DirtiMartini's Xanga</title><link>http://dirtimartini.xanga.com/</link><description>Latest Xanga weblog from DirtiMartini</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>The Weblog Community</title><url>http://s.xanga.com/images/xangalogobutton.gif</url><link>http://dirtimartini.xanga.com/</link></image><item><title>Tuesday, November 03, 2009</title><link>http://dirtimartini.xanga.com/715767530/item/</link><guid>http://dirtimartini.xanga.com/715767530/item/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:32:17 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Inconvenient Truths&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;An unidentified disappointment has been slowing growing inside my mind and I realized today what it is: the reality that truth brings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I didn't ask for it, but it still showed up. A stirring, a building awareness -- all coming back to the fact that, though I have been content for a long time, I have been naive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt; It's strange how we can find ourselves so blissfully, blindly content with life's situations and also how that happy balance is so easily offset with the slightest introduction of truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;The good/bad thing about awareness is that once you are exposed to it, there is no turning back. But now that I am seeing my surroundings with increasing clarity, I realize that I do not want to turn back.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><comments>http://dirtimartini.xanga.com/715767530/item/#firstcomment</comments></item></channel></rss>