Be Yourself

Sometimes, I wish I was this person, or that person and try to copy that person or this person. Well, I read this short story in Chicken Soup for the Soul and would like to share it with you.

Be Yourself

Ever since I was a little kid, I didn't want to be me. I wanted to be like Billy Widdledon, and Billy Widdledon didn't even like me. I walked like he walked; I talked like he talked; I signed up for the high school he signed up for.
Which was why Billy Widdledon changed. He began to hang around Herby Vandeman; he walked like Herby Vandeman; he talked like Herby Vandeman. He mixed me up! I began to walk and talk like Billy Widdledon, who was walking and talking like Herby Vandeman.
Then it dawned on me that Herby Vandeman walked and talked like Joey Haverlin. And Joey Haverlin walked and talked like Corky Sabinson.
So here I am walking and talking like Billy Widdledon's imitation of Herby Vandeman's version of Joey Haverlin, trying to walk and talk like Corky Sabinson. And who do you think Corky Sabinson is always walking and talking like? Of all people, Dopey Wellington-that little pest who walks and talks like me!

So you get the picture, right. Be yourself. Cause you never know, you might walk and talk like a person who walks and talks like another person and in the end that person walks and talks like you. And it'll just be going on and on. And you don't know who your walking and talking like! LOL!