I haven't done it for several reasons. The largest reason at first was laziness. I just didn't take the time to do it. The other reason? It did not agree with who I am and who I was created to be.
One of my goals in life is to inspire and encourage people to be true to themselves and find the things that make them truly happy. Find it and pursue it with everything you have. Creating an alter ego goes against that. How can I encourage someone to be all that they want and desire to be when I am not consistent and whole in who I want to be? The Bible even states that a double-minded man is unstable, not in some ways or some things but in all ways. If I want to be all that I want to be and encourage others to do the same, I have to be true to the person God created me to be. After all, I am not my own. I was created in His image, for His glory.
As I thought about this desire to create an alter ego, it made me think more about the reasons why I wanted to do it. What I discovered was that instead of being frustrated by different things that were happening and trying to escape them by becoming someone else, I can use these frustrations to learn more about myself. Grow, develop, mature.
The more I allow Him to move through me and use the situations and circumstances in my life, the closer I get to becoming more of the person He wants me to be. I will never reach perfection, I will never be exactly everything that He has called me to be but as the Bible says in Phillippians 3:12, we "press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me."
