WANNABE
Before 18, I’ve seen some young people
having WS, Wannabe Syndrome - actually
wanting to be someone else. Or they want
their parents or teachers or coaches to be
other than they are: to be someone else.
By 25 I’ve seen WS,
Wannabe Syndrome,
switch a bit. “I have to be myself, but still
I want to be like someone else - richer,
smarter, quicker, less moody, and in better
shape like so and so or what have you.”
By 50 I’ve seen WS,
Wannabe Syndrome,
disappear and a person says, “There is
nobody else I want to be - because as the
song goes, ‘I gotta be me…,’ but there are
people I know, whom I don’t want to be.”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016
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