People are very good at building walls – we have to be, to survive. Not physical walls (though we are pretty good at building those too), but mental walls, barriers to keep things separated in our minds.
We need to be able to separate things, to put one thing in this box here, another thing in that box there. We know that truth is this thing, fiction another. We know that we might need to be one person in work, but another one at home. Our immediate family is a self-contained unit, our friends another. We need to be aware of all of these things, because some people know some aspects of our lives, others don’t. Continue reading
Martin J Gilbert's blog of writing and thinking 
