Another YOU?

I recently saw Mike Cahill and Brit Marling's sublime film, Another Earth, feted at last year's Sundance Festival.  I loved its visual poetry, its realism (ironic, given the surreal and at times shocking narrative), the superlative acting and the stunning soundtrack - which I have been listening to as I work for the past few days.

The film's allegory is not new.  A duplicate earth appears in the sky, and we discover in time that it has duplicate people on it.  So each person on our earth has another them 'out there'.  However, the plot hinges on one fine twist; that immediately after our earth's twinning, subtle permutations in events start to occur, so that, bit by bit, the characters' paths diverge, and the people themselves become gradually different.  These events, many seemingly insignificant, might, over time, result in other, very distinctive individuals.

Usually, when we think about changing our lives - and ourselves - we do it in terms of major upheavals; leaps of faith, a new job, moving towns...

So what if, instead, you could create another YOU by tiny shifts - changes in tone and focus; subtly distinct choices; random acts that are just a little more like the OTHER you would be.  Or perhaps just by creating a quietly changed environment around you; one more like your OTHER earth; one in which it becomes impossible for you not to be that little bit OTHER too.

It has got me thinking about what shifts I can make, simply and easily, towards another ME.

Why not give it a try yourself, and let me know what happens.  (Oh, and do go and see the film if you can, especially if its not the sort of thing YOU usually do....!)