This resonates so much with me, Kiki. My moment when I tried to reinvent myself was when I went off to college. I got contact lenses for the first time, and in general tried to be a much more social and cool version of myself with all these new people.
It did not work.
One example was how I lost a contact in a rainstorm, and it took a couple weeks back then to get the replacement. In the meantime I wore my glasses. I went around asking people, do you see anything different about me? When no one noticed, I said, Iām wearing glasses now! And they said, I thought you always wore glasses. š
This resonates so much with me, Kiki. My moment when I tried to reinvent myself was when I went off to college. I got contact lenses for the first time, and in general tried to be a much more social and cool version of myself with all these new people.
It did not work.
One example was how I lost a contact in a rainstorm, and it took a couple weeks back then to get the replacement. In the meantime I wore my glasses. I went around asking people, do you see anything different about me? When no one noticed, I said, Iām wearing glasses now! And they said, I thought you always wore glasses. š