Paraphrasing a little Bruce Lee…
When i look around i always learn something, and that is always to be yourself…
and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself…
do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it, now that seems to me that that is the prevalent thing happening in the world…
like they always copy mannerisms, but they never start from the very root of his being, and that is, how can i be me? …
so unless you really at that time have gone through a lot and understand what life is about and that right now some game is happening and realizing such that that is a game, then fine and dandy then its alright, but most people can be blinded by it…
And yet the World continually tells you what you need to be, how you need to act and exactly what mold you need to fit in order to attain success and power and wealth or just to be happy and fit in…
it takes guts to be yourself, it can leave you pretty lonely as others ignore you, make fun of you, tease you and basically try and make your life a living hell… i presume they do this for a couple different reasons, because they are afraid their way of life, group, team, gang, company, whatever, is being challenged, threatened or destroyed, so they get defensive, or, because they are simply jealous, because they are unable to be themselves, they want you to fail, to be like them, because they want to be like you…
Funny isn’t it? How those exact people who copy mannerisms spend their time trying to get you to copy theirs even though theirs are not even theirs??
Please be yourself, no matter what… How can i love you if you aren’t yourself?? Who am i loving then if not you??
At the end of the day we are all alone and only we live with ourselves 24/7/365…
BE YOURSELF!!!
Source:
http://www.justinmayer.ca/2487/be-yourself