My Internal Cuddlefish

The other day i watched a short video about a cuddle fish.  a cuddle fish is  jelly fish octopus like fish that can change it's skin to fit any environment-the color and the texture... in the sea that is.  The video showed the fish in varied  environments changing the texture and the color of its skin.  When white rocks were  placed in the environment. It was even able to mimc the color of the rocks and the sand it was on.  But when scientists took a piece of fabric and placed it under the critter, it tried real hard but was not able to mimic the fabric accurately.  It changed the color and size of it's stripes but was only able to mimic to a certain extent and never really got the stripes right.
So, it was only able to blend in ,  protect itself in an environment that was natural for it. 


Watching that cuddlefish thing, kinda reminded me of myself.... I'm soft, flexible and often try to mimic environments that are unnatural to me.  That cuddle fish even stretched it's arms in the direction of the stripes to try to blend but try as it might, it couldn't do become a piece of stripe fabric.( it was kind of funny). Anyhoo...as i was saying,  Always tryna blend in in places that I'm really not welcome.  I've always thought of myself as pretty versatile.  But, when you really get down to it, I don't care how versatile a finite being is at some point or another it comes nose to nose with it's limitations, as I have with mine.  Limitations serve multiple purposes. Two that I've discovered are:1)They  allow room on the road of this journey for the other guys and 2)They keep you safe and healthy.  If you are not aware of them or ignore them, it leaves you on a collision course with the other guys that above all things can open to many things that make you unsafe and unhealthy.
Everybody probably has some cuddlefish in them at some point n their lives. Some people will simply be cuddle fish all their lives. It's good to be able to think outside of the box but it makes life much easier if you are outside of a box that you are familiar with...that is yours.

 I'm kinda cuddlefishy.  R U?