Put up or shut up...

So for the past couple of weeks I've been posting on here with reckless abandon. Relatively assured that the only people that might stumble upon my rantings are either complete strangers or my wife and a few select friends (both of whom are already aware of my personal defects and are growing used to my sometimes unhinged editorializing.) But last night I was placed in the proverbial "put up or shut up" situation. A friend who runs a successful blog with actual readers invited me to write for her blog......At first I was excited, I mean I would actually be writing for real people (not that my selected friends and wife are not real....they know me though and understand who I am.) To put it another way, I don't have anything to prove to them, they've seen the real me and for some reason or another have decided to stay. To be honest, it's kinda like the time I went to the urologist and discovered the my doctor was a her and not a him. (Although I'm not sure why it would've been THAT much more comfortable for a guy to be there for my disrobing...but I digress.) I am beginning to feel naked here and I realized that, over the years, I've fought to not allow people to see the inside of me. I'm the funny guy, the guy that people want to hang out with when they want a light evening.  But what if, after people unearth the inside guy from the funny guy exterior, people don't like the inside guy? ...................So I guess you're wondering if I'm gonna do it. Of course I am, it's an awesome honor to even be considered and quite frankly I'd be a fool to turn it away.....but I can tell that it's going to be a bit before inside guy gets as much respect in my head as funny guy. And there's only one way to do that....put up or shut up.