Better Your Way

I've always wanted to be an exciting person. I've never considered myself to be exciting, mainly because loud and exciting are not necessarily synonymous. But in trying to be exciting, I tend to stray from who I really am. I'm really bad at just being me. I guess I don't consider myself to be fun or interesting. Rather, I usually consider myself to be boring and obnoxious, and a complete dork. I look at other people, people I consider to be exciting, and I want to be like them. Bad idea.

That's why my quote this week is, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." It's true. If you're a Molly pretending to be a bad girl, over time you'll realize that you're no longer pretending to be a bad girl, and you're somewhere you never intended to be.

So I've been experimenting. And I've found that life is a lot easier when you stop pretending to be someone you're not. Granted, I didn't come to this conclusion on my own (eternal thanks to you!), and I'm not exactly Queen of Being Myself. But it's a work-in-progress. And we are getting there.

Moral of the story? Don't try to be someone you're not. There are enough exciting people in the world; we need boring, normal, down-to-earth people to counterbalance that excitement. Be content in being who you are, because more people than you can possibly know like you better that way.