We all wear a suit over us. This is how people sees and knows us as individuals. With more interactions with others, the early stages of our suits are further refined and customised to make them more fitting and wearable, and they project, internally and externally, who we are for the rest of our lives.
We do not really know when the suit is first created, but we know how we create and keep it in existence, always influencing the perception of others about us. Success is the creator of strong suits. When the suits we wear bring about excitement in others about us and joy in us, they are said to be good suits. With further such meaning making reinforcements, the design becomes great and it stays on us for the rest of our lives.This is all good and fine until it is a struggle to stay in the suit. Many of us do not know that the suit has become so tight that it is suffocating us. Some knows that it is killing them but it has become so strong that they can no longer take it off. Others choose not to go without it because they are proud about being unique individuals and having it on helps others to single them out from the crowd easily. In this terminal stage, our suit dictates our ways and we become its slaves.
In choosing and perfecting the suit, and wearing only this one, we ignore all other possible suits that could bring other possibilities into our lives. So fixed we are by the suit that we wear, we have no room for fresh ideas. The strong suit becomes exclusive, and it is restricting all of our potentials and limiting what we could possibly do in our lives.
This article was 1st written on 29 Oct 2010.
Copyright 2010. Anthony Mok. All Rights Reserved.
