Ever felt like you have become the worst version of yourself? The moment you are not a reasonable person, no sign of compassion, envy flows through your veins… All the shadow sides of you that you’d rather not have displayed at a job interview. That complete package is all bottled up in a mini you inside yourself.
I’m usually a loving person. Sunny spirit, lots of humour and compassion for my fellow human beings. I haven’t always been this person. Years ago I had some difficulty with certain people. I was a member of a group on internet and we used to meet once in a while. One of the members had the habit of making a show whether or not he would attend a meeting. I found this attitude very annoying. During one of the meetings I sat next to him. I didn’t want to sit there, but there was no other seat vacant. I looked at him and said “how come that I dislike you so much”. It came out of my mouth before I knew what I was saying.
Surprisingly a nice conversation started about ego and shadow sides. We started joking about our ego’s and before we new it we had given our ego’s a name. He became Robin Hood and I was Betty Boop. The rest of the group joined in and.. hello Pipi Longstocking was born. The advantage of the characters was, that I enabled us to have a helicopter view at yourselves.
That is how my Betty was born.. my charming little inner diva, who shows herself once I get upset, angry and blaming everyone but me for all the things that go wrong. Because it helped me to know what the ego does, I started writing about her. I gave Betty her own storyline. She has a panorama room inside my head, with a window seat covered with soft fabric so she can see what is going on. She got her own dressing room and every time she used to get a tantrum she threw all the make-up through the room and pulled the wallpaper of the walls.
My friends found the blogs hilarious and loved reading them. There were some critics, who thought I had multiple personality disorder. I can assure you, that is not the case. I know I’m responsible for my own emotions. I believe that humour is a good way to make things less heavy in the world and my Betty invention is certainly one of my humorous moments. Not taking yourself too seriously and being able to laugh about your own flaws. The adventures of my Betty will be posted on this site on Happy Betty . To be continued…
