Happy 'Be Unaccountable' Day!

Taking a page straight from Girl's are pretty, I'm asking you to pick a day--more if possible, but at least one--and be unaccountable to anything that was every once rigidly considered your 'self.' Your personality, your personal history, all of the things about you are a construct of your need (and society's need for you) to be a recognizable, identifiable person. And those things can be really valuable. They can make a resume. They can get you a job. Make you friends. Help you find love. But they are also terribly sticky. They can trap you in the muck of all of your choice and mire you in an ever winnowed away narrow little tunnel of no options at all.

Accountability is for boring corporate whores with no sense of style.

So toss it off for a day. I'm not sure I can provide practical advice for accomplishing this. And this is quite certainly not practical, so maybe such a thing doesn't exist. But I would say just sort of run out into the world and act impulsively. Try not to hamper your decisions with anything like thought and reflection. I'm not suggesting that one simply toss social norms out the window and Id it up for a day. But more like, make decisions as if there never had been a you that would or wouldn't do a thing. Like maybe I really wanted to wear a baseball cap and play some football but we worried that it might make me seem like a jock. Or maybe I wanted to recite flowering poetry in the midst of the people walking up to Bart but was worried that would make me seem crazy.

So take a second and think about some random impulses that you might have wanted had you been another you. And be another you. At least for a day. And to close, as with every rip off of a girl's are pretty post...Happy 'Be Unaccountable' Day!