Not that kind of a girl

Today's post is indirectly inspired by the film 'Straight A', which I highly recommend. In the film a teenage girl lies about losing her virginity. As she's reading Nathaniel Hawthorn's The Scarlet Letter, she decides to start wearing a scarlet A (for adultery) on her clothes. Things pretty much spiral hilariously out of control from there. And yes, they really use the line about 'not that kind of girl'.

Which got me wondering about self-identity more broadly. What kind of a girl or boy are you? How subject to change is that?

If you are an honest kind of person, do you suddenly cease to exist if you tell a lie? If you are a slob, do you cease to exist if you tidy up? Do you become someone totally different, or just choose to exercise a less well-expressed facet of your multidimensional personality?

Usually the past is a good indicator of future behavior, but we don't want it to be when we're ready for a change. We - sometimes - allow past behavior to become a cage, or at least a very deep rut.

That's when we need to remind ourself that, starting now, we can choose what kind of girl (or boy) we want to be. And we can still be ourself while we do it.

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