One day my son and I had to go into a store in the sketchy part of the city. As we walked into the store there was an announcement playing over and over repeatedly to check your bag at customer service.
At customer service there was a wall of pictures of people who were blacklisted from coming back into the store, with very recent date stamps on the pictures.
We were a bit culture shocked. This was so different from our safe little community, 20 miles away.
On the drive home, he asked me why people would stay living in that community when it was clearly so unsafe. It would be far easier for them to steal something in our community… Or thrive.
What a great question.
But we pretty much all do it, don’t we? The majority of us stay in the same place we have always been. Repeating the same patterns.
It is so hard to reinvent yourself, to believe life could be better.
If you moved, you would have to learn new social skills, and etiquette and the rules to live there.
And what if before you learned those new rules, you were shunned, or snubbed, or not accepted for living life the only way you know how? What if the people there, wonder who you think you are, to be moving in next door.
It’s terrifying to not be readily accepted. I think that fear holds us back from ever trying in the first place.
But what if you knew you could learn the new rules, it would just take some time.
What if you knew once you learned them, you would be accepted there?
What if you knew all it takes is to be a little bit brave, and start to showing up in a new way.
Would you try to reinvent yourself and your life?