Out of the Box

This is random advice aimed at no one in particular.  If you think it is aimed directly at you, then a) you're wrong, and b) you're so vain you probably think this song is about you, too.  On the other hand, if you think it sounds like I'm talking about you, then you should consider taking this advice on board.  And, heck, let's face it - I probably am writing about you, I'm just cleverly disguising it as generic advice.

You have written yourself into a box.  You have wrapped yourself up and locked yourself down with patterns that you have established for yourself and rules that no-one is holding you to except you - and your life is not going to get any better and you are not going to be any happier until you give yourself permission to change.

You have established a character and worked hard on confirming and re-affirming it, but you don't have to doom yourself to playing that character for the rest of your life.  You've said things in the past - things about yourself and the way you see the world - but they weren't the words of God.  They aren't written in stone, and you don't have to hold yourself to them.

You might have been mistaken - that's okay, you don't have to be right all the time.  You might well have been right at the time, but now things can be different now.  Truth has a use-by date, and life moves on (if you let it).  Maybe the person you thought you were could be something you were trying out for a while, and now you can try something else.

Let yourself be wrong, mistaken, a work in progress - and don't think for a moment that it's a sign of weakness.  The strongest people are the ones who let themselves be imperfect so they can improve.

Change.  Grow.  Move on.  Dump entire parts of yourself and replace them with something new if you need to - whatever gets you out of that damn box.

You'd be surprised by how many things you've been holding onto as important parts of yourself are not really that important at all - and how much lighter you will be for letting yourself put them down and leave them behind.

It's time you stopped making yourself be the person you thought you were ten years ago, and let yourself work on the You Mk II.

Trust me on this, I'm starting to work on the Me Mk III.