Screw the Wizard

If you were given a moment to choose someone else, would you? I suppose I should qualify that question by saying not so much the material accoutrements and wealth that person may have (Wow, I think the need to make that qualification is a topic - in and of itself ya know?).

Would you, could you choose to be someone different than yourself? Would you want to be more of some personal quality or less of another?

Would you trade some of who you are for some of what they have?!?

Me? Not so much. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely things I wish I did better or I wish I weren't at all for that matter. But taken as a whole, I am content with me.

I'm content with the varying assortment of traits and quirks that make me up - the parts of me that crave control and order, the parts of me that are frequently bashful, the parts of me that is stubborn as a mule.

I think its terribly satisfying to be content with oneself. Sure, there are things I'd like to different. But it's a lot easier to figure out how to get more shoes in my closet when I don't have to continually beat myself up because I think I'm too much of this or too much of that.

Remember in The Wizard of Oz.. all the lead characters had some tremendous personality flaw. The scarecrow was always dumb, the tin man was unfeeling, the lion was afraid, Dorothy was selfish, and the wizard was pretty insecure hiding behind his curtain. The thing all of them wanted was to be different than who they were.

Think about how many of us go to therapy or get medicated legally and illegally or simply beat ourselves up because we don't have some magical yellow brick road to follow as if it were some better path to ourselves.

Screw the wizard (not literally cuz he was really un-hot).

I'm content with me.