Becoming Me Was Hard Enough…

Daily writing prompt
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

Honestly WP? Hard pass.

I’ve spent half my life trying to survive being me. Why would I clock in as someone else for 24 hours like it’s a shift job?

People always imagine being rich, famous, powerful, beautiful… whatever their version of “better” is. But what nobody thinks about is this:

You don’t just get their highlights.
You get their anxiety.
Their history.
Their secrets.
Their coping mechanisms.
Their regrets at 3am.

No thanks.

I know how to operate this particular nervous system. I know where my cracks are, where my strength is, where my dark humor lives. I’ve already done the years of training required to be me.

Also, and this might be the most rebellious part. I’m finally at a stage where I don’t actually want to escape myself anymore.

That took decades.

If anything, I’d maybe jump forward in time to meet Future Me. Just to see if she’s as peaceful as I hope she’ll be… and to confirm she survived all the things I’m currently figuring out.

But someone else?

No.

This life may be messy, unconventional, and occasionally held together with sarcasm and stubbornness…

…but it’s mine.

And I’m not swapping it.

Mae 🧡


Comments

21 responses to “Becoming Me Was Hard Enough…”

  1. Loved this response Mae.💜

    1. Thanks IM 🧡

  2. Perfect response!

    1. Thanks Jean 🧡

  3. Great take on the topic! I always say that the most important thing you can be is yourself, because nobody can do it for you.

    1. Dead right 🧡

  4. Could not have said it better. Well done!

  5. I completely agree with you. 👏

    1. Thanks Pepper 🧡

  6. No swapping, Mae …‘tis a mugs game, … and I totally agree, the effort it took to reach this far? …self knowledge is so hard won, …💙

    1. Absolutely Penn … 🧡

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    Joey Jones

    Sooo good to have you back. 😁 funny post

    1. Thanks Joey 🧡

  8. Amen.

  9. Ditto.

  10. Very nice 😄

    1. Thanks, Daisy 🧡

  11. I agree 100%☺️

  12. Great insight. The “shift job” concept is something I hadn’t thought about, but it is true. Why even get a taste of the good? It goes away and then we are left to deal with the same shit. Thanks for the share.

    1. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
      Mae 🧡

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    Joey Jones

    I’ve missed you so much and yet you had begun posting again. Forgive me x

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