Move to a new city alone and you’ll discover which parts of you were really you and which were your old zip code.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Place shapes people more than anyone realises until they leave one. Habits, opinions, the volume you speak at, even what you find funny: much of it was inherited from a particular set of streets and a particular set of people. Somewhere new strips that away and shows you what was actually yours.
A whole move is not required to run a smaller version of the test. Spend a few days somewhere nobody knows you and notice what you keep doing anyway. Those parts travel with you, and they are the ones worth knowing about.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which habits of yours belong to you, not your hometown?
MORE IN MINDSET & IDENTITY
- Every once in a while you’ll surprise yourself. That’s proof you still haven’t read the last page of you.
- Know where you stop and your best friend starts. Loving someone doesn’t mean absorbing every mood they have.
- Little kids can play alone for hours with a stick and a puddle. At some point we unlearned that. Learn it back.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.