Or trying to say delicately to an artist friend of mine that I'm not giving up my passions by being in a program aimed at a "real job", and that our struggles are ultimately the same.

This is why I will always like you -- I, uh, this resonates with me a lot.

I suffer a bit from the same type of thing, too: my online identity and real-life identity are blurring as I meet more and more of my online friends in real life.

And I've referred to myself IRL as "Sev" sometimes, because, y'know, it's not weird ENOUGH to talk about yourself in third person, let alone in third person using a stupid internet pseudonym.