Remember playing Marco Polo? If you haven’t played that game you either are lying or are just weird person. Classic childhood game of tag but in water and the tagger has his eyes closed. Whenever we played there was always that one kid who would jump out of the pool quietly and stand on the pool deck to hide. i always thought it was cheating but hey sometimes all that matters is winning a simple game of Marco Polo. (was there ever a winner though? Don’t answer that, it’s rhetorical.) Anyways if the tagger found out you were out of the water, they would yell “Fish out of water!!” If you got caught out of water, you became the tagger. I don’t know why I am explaining this game to you since we all know how to play. hahaha
Anyways, “Fish out of water” that statement got me thinking about it recently and how so many people struggle with fitting in.
Why do we feel the need to always fit in or be part of the crowd. Honestly time and time again we have to feel validated.
At a bar- “ I’ll have what she’s having”
Wearing new clothes- “ What you guys think of my overpriced t-shirt?”
I am guilty of it as well, but my entire life I’ve tried to just do my own thing and be my own person. It’s helped me become who I am today. There are so many cookie cutter people in this world making it a boring place. Have some fun, enjoy yourself. If you like to eat Oreos for breakfast go ahead and do that. You eat macaroni and cheese with ketchup, you be you bro. You like the show Friends?….cool. hahaha
Stop with the compartmentalizing of yourself and picking and choosing what to show and hide from others. Start accepting who you are and life is going to be 10000x better than what it is now.
Enough of this rant, I got to go boil some eggs ,
but before I go, I’ll leave y’all with this quote :
“Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind
don’t matter, and those who matter
don’t mind.”
- Dr. Suess
Cheers,
Rex Felixx