Be yourself
What does that mean? We’re being ourselves every single day aren’t we? So why does it feel like we’re not? Is it because there’s a difference between the person we want to be and the person we are? Or the person we know ourselves to be and the person we present to the big bad world? How do you go about being the ‘me’ I actually want the world to see?
(I think for me, it’s often a case of just having an idea and just doing it. Stopping myself well, stopping and thinking it through. Sometimes there are times when that’s surely appropriate but often, I think I’m learning, it isn’t.
September 14, 2010
One response to Be yourself
I think the notion of ‘being me’ is a hell of a lot simpler in title than in execution. Not least confused by the fact that I’m only aware of half of what makes me ‘me’ in all its wonderful technicolour! We do things and act in ways that make us think we’re not being ‘me’ because it’s our unconscious selves taking control – so does that make it more ‘me’ because I’m doing it unsconsciously, or less ‘me’ because I don’t go through the actions of consciously deciding what I do or think? See, said it got screwy and complicated! Plus, add into that the idea that we never really know who ‘me’ is: self-actualisation is about the process of discovery which changes who we are every day rather than the destination of knowing who we are that we’re striving for.
All those bits – who we have been, who we want to be, who we think we are right now – that’s all who you are, all multifaceted and confusing as hell!