Have you ever wondered what it would be like to truly trade places with someone else for a day? In many ways our society fantasizes about this with Freaky Friday nuances. But have we ever stopped to think about the full magnitude of what it would actually be like to truly trade places? Nothing like Freaky Friday at all. Because you see, in Freaky Friday the trade is merely bodies, but the soul stays the same. We can ponder what it would be like to trade situations and circumstances with another being, but is that truly trading places? Putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes is a limited perspective shift because although we see it from another angle, we still bring our own rose coloured tinted glasses with us. To truly trade places means divorcing ourselves fully from all past experiences, thought patterns, knowledge, growth and everything else that is embedded throughout who we are. Simply put it is an impossible task to truly see things from another person’s point of view. Sure we can have empathy and build a bridge that lands somewhere between where we are and where someone else is. That is a good skill to have and widens our own perspective and understanding. Yet we cannot truly know what it is to see the world through another’s eyes. It might sound fun to trade places, but trading places in full is actually trading who we are at our core. It means exchanging our values, personality, innermost thoughts, and the heart of who we are for someone else’s. Trading circumstances is limited. Growing up I had a book of a Disnified Mickey Mouse version of the Prince and Pauper. A part of me wondered what it would be like to suddenly change everything for a moment. Like that new Netflix holiday video Princess Switch with Vanessa Hudges. It would be an adventure, something new.
Yet try as we might royalty remains royalty and common folk common folk. Having a thrown doesn’t change the inner you, it simply highlights you in a different way. And sure in these stories often leadership qualities come out in new ways, but it is not as though the circumstance suddenly created that within them. No, leadership is built over time and space slowly preparing you for when opportunity arises. It does not appear at random in a puff of magical smoke. Changes are built and created. And we can make our own magic. Why change places when you can design the place you want to be and take who you are there with you? Be proud of who you are and embrace the you that is already in there. Then choose to display it. Waiting for circumstances to change won’t do any good. Embrace it now. Accepting our inner selves is the only way to find lasting unity with in ourselves. Be your own thrown. Don’t long to trade places. Instead, boldly bring who you are into new spaces. Enter with intentionality and work to bridge the gap between the life you want and the one you have.
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