You.

"You cannot become what you already aren't."

No one can turn you into a self loathing, self pitying, self defeating bum, you behave the way you do because its in your capacity to do so. No one can turn you into a high flying, super achieving, highly successful person either. You may end up one because its also in your capacity to do so.

Our personalities are not completely original. We made it up as we went along being influenced by our experiences and environment. We choose to be be "cute", "demure", "cool", "hot" because of our own metaprograms. We think it gives us something we desire consciuosly or unconsciuosly.

If you become an asshole because someone did something terrible to you, you are still an asshole because you know the asshole you can be, and you choose to be it. There IS that part of you, and you know it. There really isn't any point blaming others for your own behaviours or actions because you cannot be something you don't know how to be.

Nobody ever turns us into something, we do. Taking responsibility and course correcting will help us much more than hiding behind circumstances for our actions.

There is another side to these words, we can't become someone you want to become without "being" it ourselves. Arnold's quote i placed on "Happiness" explains it. If we can't even pretend it, we don't want it. On some level our mind is stopping us, probably because we want something else more. Metaprograms.


How did you become you?