"Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are."
Kurt Cobain

Would you like to be someone else. Pretending to be someone else is a enormously popular activity at Halloween when that is publicly encouraged, so it undoubtedly lurks in our psyches the rest of the year waiting for the one day that it can be expressed safely. This begs the question: "Why would anyone want to be someone else?" It would seem that most of us are simply not happy being ourselves. Perhaps we feel that we are inadequate the way we are.

As Petula Clark sings "The other man's grass is always greener. The sun shines brighter on the other side." We tend to assume that someone else must be having a much better life than ours. We are fascinated with the lives of celebrities, obviously finding their lives much more interesting than our own. We think that without money and fame, our lives are trivial and dull. But that's not the case. Success isn't about money and fame; it involves being happy and improving the lives of other people in any way. This means we can all be successful just the way we are, as long as we are not longing to be someone else.

Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are. When we are focused on how much better someone else's life is, we are not focused on how to make the best of who we are and our own lives. We can't control what other people do, but we can control our own lives. We can strive to fulfill our own promise, and the unique purpose God gave us. And that's all that really matters in life. That is what gives us what we really want, which is happiness.

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