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How to Make Something Your Entire Personality — You’re Already Doing It
Can liking pink be considered a personality?
We’ve all heard the remark about how some people make a “thing” their entire personality. You might have even made the remark yourself. Maybe in relation to a friend who calls themselves a Swifty, a colleague who’s one true love is CrossFit, or that bloke at every party bragging about how much they’ve made off crypto.
I first made this remark, or at the very least thought it, about 10 years ago. A girl I knew lived for pink. That’s pink the colour, not the airborne musical artist. Soz, P!nk!
This girl, she wore pink clothes, had pink streaks in her hair, and even her online username was her name preluded by “pink.” She’d also talk about the colour a lot, which was quite impressive, because, well, what’s there to say beyond, “So…pink?”
I didn’t get how someone could love anything that much. I mean, I’m quite partial to a deep green, but you don’t see me calling myself deepgreensteph, though it does have a mystical woman of the earth touch to it.
When we encounter people like this, it’s easy to judge. Easy to think you’re above this sort of “basic” behaviour. That is until you, or more accurately I, remember the house meeting I called when I was 11…
