Chameleon

Isn't it amazing that we all have multiple personalities? If you question this, perhaps you've never stood behind someone at a Redbox.

Endlessly thumbing the screen looking to their right, left or down (to a child) to ask:

"What do you want to watch?"

Followed by a shrug, a "you pick," "I don't know," or a very specific answer. Depending on what the person says, you could be there another 20 minutes tapping your foot.

Indecisiveness, it seems, spurs from the decidedly self-conscious outlook we humans color our lives with. That Redbox person may have scrolled through at least two movies he or she would have chosen had they not had a companion but they shifted their perspective (I would even go as far to say as altered part of their personality) in order to appease the other person in some way.

While the Redbox example may be a stretch, it serves an important point. We may not all actually have multiple personalities – that's a real issue that I am not trying to make light of – but we do bend and alter them based on the people around us and our perception of what we think others see in us.

It may not be profound, but there's a message in there somewhere. The next time you catch yourself being a chameleon remember that camouflage is just another disguise.