KopyKat

Introduction

There are three important questions you need to ask yourself. 1. Who are you? Knowing who you are, determines your values. 2. What do you want? Knowing what you want, determines your actions. 3. Why do you want something? Knowing why you want what you want, determines your beliefs.

You know the dash between the dates of your birth and death, e.g., 1960–2010? Well, it sums up your values, actions, and beliefs. As small as it is, your entire life is in this dash. What do you want the dash to say about you? You have a decision to make, one to be made now. Honestly, this is the only decision you will make to impact you after you’re dead. No, I am not referring to Life Insurance!

The truth is this; either you want to be part of the minority or part of the majority. In layman’s term, either you want to be different and do things differently, or you want to do what everyone else is doing.

If you are happy with what you are doing, and want to remain ignorant of your future, read no further. But if you are not happy and you are seeking truth in hopes of applying it so you can have an enjoyable life and a fantastic afterlife, then please enjoy this read. However, be forewarned. These truths are rather simple but won’t be easy to follow therefore the change won’t be easy. But if you want making the change easier and more bearable answer this question. Why do you want to make a change in your life? Is it for you or because of others? See, once you can identify your motivation or why you are doing something, what you are doing becomes easier to do.

Oh, but please note. To prove a point, we all use one or more of the following: • personal experience • experience of others • science • the Good book

So these are the points I used throughout KopyKat.

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Choices, Choices, Choices

Isn’t it simply amazing the way you get dressed every day, paying close attention to every detail (your face, clothes, smile, and hair), so you can begin your daily routine just perfectly? And of course, right before you leave the house, you take one final look at yourself in the mirror. In looking at yourself, you say, “Man, I look good eh? The world really can’t handle another me you know!” You think you are a force to be reckoned with.

You have the triple-B effect: beauty, body, and brains. As a young person, this makes you “hot,” highly sought after, and popular. You are bombarded with compliments, so you feel gorgeous. In addition to this potentially deadly duo of beauty and body, having “brains” makes for a devastating combination. It makes you a leaderor better yet, a trendsetter. Everyone wants to be just like you!

Just stop it, okay? Snap out of it and come back to reality. Are you really a leader—oops, my bad— I meant a trendsetter based on your originality? You are?! Ok, let me explain. A leader is one who sets an example and a trendsetter leads the way in fashion or ideas. So I ask again, are you a leader or even a trendsetter? You’re still telling me you are a trendsetter? Look, it’s really hard to recognize your originality because you blend in so well. I mean your dress, speech, and actions are no different from those of the people around you. You are not a trendsetter and although you may have leadership qualities, you are not a leader just yet because you still follow trends (not only in fashion but in ideas as well). The truth is you are not different at all. So do both of us a favor, and stop lying to yourself. What you are doing really only makes you a copycat.

What makes you different is being able to stand alone and apart from everyone else without caring if you are alone. This not only makes you different or unique, but it also shows you are stronger than the average person. Do you really want to be unique? It doesn’t look so. You want to fit in. You want to be accepted, and you will be, no matter the costeven if it means compromising something or maybe everything.

Let’s focus on your physical appearance for a second. You claim to be good-looking, but because of what others say and do, you decide to get facial and body piercings, countless tattoos, breast and hip implants, nose jobs, and tummy tucks, to name a few. You do this only because others are not happy with the way you look. Do you think these additions or subtractions to your image will make you look better or cause you to feel better about yourself? Maybe your peers want you to look like someone else so they can be pleased when they look at you.

To me, this makes no sense. Why should you look like someone else so other people can be pleased when they look at you? If that’s the case, they don’t need to look at you! You see, it’s in trying to make others happy you begin to lose yourself. Sooner or later, you will begin to act and speak like everyone else. If this is what you are doing, you must ask yourself if you’re really good- looking—and to whose standards are you comparing your beauty?

It is often said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, well if this statement is true for you, whose eyes are beholding your beauty? If your beauty is determined by what someone says about your looks, then you really do not need a mirror to look at yourself each day. If your beauty is not determined by others, you should not care to look the way everyone else does, nor should you care to hear what they say about how you should look. Rather, you should be happy being you.

Knowing the way you look externally is good, but you should be even more concerned about the way you look internally. If you had a mirror showing your internal attributes, would you be pleased with the way you look? Would you still think you’re the best thing ever created?

This mirror really exists, but I’m not sure if this is known. When I discovered this mirror existed, I went on a hunt to get it. Never before had I moved so fast and searched so hard for something like I did this mirror. When I found it and took a look in it, it didn’t show me what the mirror on my wall showed me.