The Other You!

Recently I watched an episode of Friends on Netflix. It was the one where Monica’s identity is stolen. She starts analyzing her credit card bills and notices what an incredible life her thief is living. She’s actually living the life Monica wishes she had.

Monica sets out to find the woman responsible and ends up in a tap dance class. There, she meets “Monica,” the woman who’s been living her life, only better.

“Monana” as the real Monica calls herself, falls in love with the fake Monica. The fake Monica is actually living life. She’s dancing, auditioning for the musical Cats, crashing parties, etc. Monica realizes she’s been missing out. When she’s with the fake Monica, Monana feels alive.

Of course, the fake Monica was bound to get caught. And she did; ended up in jail. The real Monica feels like she’s lost a part of herself. She asks, “What am I going to do now?” The fake Monica doesn’t care—she’s in prison.

The real Monica realizes that who the fake Monica was is really her—her true desires shrouded in fear.

By the end of the show, Monica realizes that she can do all the things by herself that she was doing with the fake Monica. All she had to do was step through her fears, and start living.

All of us have another part to us—a part that, given the chance, will live the life we’re too afraid to live. All we have to do is give up the insecurities, the fears, the lack of self-confidence, and take the plunge. We don’t need a fake one of us to point out what we’ve been missing. The real us is enough. It’s time we unearth that true being and start living the life we’re meant to be living.