Day 10: what you think when you hear the words “be yourself”
2 Comments To be honest, I immediately think “But what is ‘myself’?”
I once had a theory that you never know your true self, because we all act differently around different people. I can be ‘myself’ around work colleagues, then another version of ‘myself’ around clients, another around family, etc. I felt that the only time that you are your true self is being by yourself.
But, as I’ve grown, I’ve realised that the differences in ‘myself’ amongst different people are slowly transforming and merging into the one. Of course, around strangers (clients at work, etc.) I’m more polite and swear less, but I never pull any punches, I’m always honest.
Being myself is becoming easier as I grow older – I’m letting go of biases that I grew up with, letting go of stigma and expectations. For example, everyone expected us to have a baby within months of getting married – two years later, we’re still without children, and that’s being true to myself because I knew for the last two years we couldn’t afford to have a child.
I’m geeky, quirky, generally happy, overweight, unfit, life-loving – and I embrace everything that I am.
*wow, talk about tangents*
Caity
Twitter: @caitysparkles says:
Yeah, I think when we are younger we are still growing into the person we want to be and so we sort of try out different aspect of other groups we hang about while we take aspects we like from them and make them out own. Soon we are just ourselves.