Once we pass maturity, we obey a sort of Newton's first law: we do the same thing today as we did yesterday unless there is outside pressure or an act of will to do something different. Everybody does this, and in general in history it's the norm. The idea that people frequently wake up and decide to change the way they look, live their life etc. is a creation of the advertising industry.

The conscious changes to my appearance since leaving university were to wear not-black clothes, and have short hair instead of ponytail. The main thing that has required constant, sustained effort of will and decisions to change myself is "get girlfriend".

Well, nearly four years ago I did wake up and decide to cut all my hair off, so it's not as if I'm incapable of doing that sort of thing at all...

The problem with generalising like that is that then you end up with someone like me, who wakes up practically every day going "I'm bored, I want to wear/look like/create/learn something different". There are a few constants to my wardrobe, life and personal style but those are there because they're things that work well with the way I happen to be. About the only thing I do exactly the same every day is make decisions to change assorted bits of my life...

Can I just say that the de-ponytailed, not goth Pete looks much better and happier these days? That could be down to losing the emo factors in life and having a pixie buzzing around these days... ;)

I wear different things most days, not really one colour. Although obviously, as simont must know, purple is a favourite colour of mine...

I sometimes wake up and change the way I look/live for no reason. Though, I would not be surprised if this meant I have been having 14th birthdays for the last ten years - my skin certainly appears to think so at the moment :/