You donât know anyone at the party, so you donât want to go. You donât like cottage cheese, so you havenât eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but donât kid yourself: itâs also the flinch. Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but itâs really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy.
You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who canât write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but thatâs really not you. Itâs not ingrained. Itâs not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than just preferences, and these details on the surface, you can change anytime you like.
If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, itâs the only way.
Set fire to your old self. Itâs not needed here. Itâs too busy shopping, gossiping about others, and watching days go by and asking why you havenât gotten as far as youâd like. This old self will die and be forgotten by all but family, and replaced by someone who makes a difference.
Your new self is not like that. Your new self is the Great Chicago Fireâoverwhelming, overpowering, and destroying everything that isnât necessary.
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