There’s a show on Monday nights called Samantha Who. The premise of the show is that the main character Samantha, played by Christina Applegate, was in some kind of accident from which she suffered amnesia. Now, she doesn’t know what kind of person she was before the accident – bitchy, slutty, nice, prudish, mean, charitable – you get the picture.
I find the concept fascinating. Imagine what you could do – who you could be – if you weren’t held back by the idealization of who you are. If you weren’t held back by the labels that are probably outdated and irrelevant. It doesn’t matter who you were 18 years ago – it hardly matters who you were 2 minutes ago. You can be the person you’ve always wanted to be starting right now.
I’m trying to hold on to those words as I start a new direction. I’m moving (albeit slowly) in a direction that I want to go in. I have an idea that I think is a good one. I’ve shared it with some friends. They all love it. So I’m going to see what I can do with it. To that end, I’ve started weekly meetings with a friend of mine – she, too, has goals bigger than what she’s doing now in her career. So we’re holding ourselves accountable to each other in the hopes that this will inspire us to keep moving forward and eventually get where we want to be.
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December 7, 2008 at 9:32 pm
LOVE it.
Start today.