117. Are you trying to change who you are?
It’s not as easy as just changing your appearance.

My wife made me a Grey’s Anatomy convert. We now watch reruns before we go to bed. In Season 6, one of the characters who’s a brunette dyed her hair blond after breaking up with her doctor boyfriend. It was Valentine’s Day and she wanted to change “for her”.
One of her colleagues told her that you can’t just change your hair color and expect to change. You have to change from the inside. So then went on to advocate for an unorthodox procedure to save a patient’s arm by temporarily sewing it onto his leg to provide it with healthy blood to keep it alive.
It just made me think about how people try to change in life. Besides dyeing their hair, they get tattoos, get cosmetic surgery or do something else that changes their outward appearance. In some cases it can help but in others, it doesn’t change the fact that they’re the same people underneath.
If you want to change, it does have to come from the inside. To be a writer, I had to start writing — a lot. Now I’m in the final stretch of my second book. It hasn’t been easy, but I’ve been changing my habits to allow myself to write.
If you want to change, do what’s hard. That’s how you truly change.
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