Reinvent myself? Don't mind if I do.

Like it was so easy to invent myself in the first place.

I find it interesting that we throw around this notion of reinventing really anything and anyone. Do we ever? If TV has taught me anything, and it hasn't, it's that we fail when we try to be someone we are not. Any good 80's movie will show that the nerds can be popular for a time but in the end they are right back where they started and they have learned a valuable lesson in those last 90 minutes. *The more you know (cue shooting star)*

If I hear one more person say reinventing themselves I will die. It implies they are shucking everything that was them and donning a new persona. Now we can improve ourselves by going back to school but you never fundamentally change who you are. The old adage 'a tiger never changes its stripes' is very true. Just like in the episode where Homer, Apu and Moe have a bowling team and Mr. Burns joins the team and it looks like he just wants to be part of something more than just himself. He in the end he reverted to his old self and stole the trophy for himself.

In all those John Hughes films they may get the girl or boy in the end but really they go back to being the same geeky/nerdy self in the end.

And why would you want to "reinvent" anything. How often do we hear the saying "Let's not reinvent the wheel shall we." I think that is a good way of looking at it, as potentially counter productive. Add, detract or modify behaviors or your physical self but never try to become something you are not. You are who you are. Any real significant change is going to take years of work and can not be done with a new wardrobe.

Just thoughts to ponder.