Be
Yourself
You
are who you want to be, who you choose to be. Don’t ever let anyone tell you
otherwise. Because it’s not true. You think that you can’t do something, that
it’s just not possible? Well, the impossible happens every day. Belief is a
large part of capability so believe in yourself too. After all, life itself is
an impossibility – the chances of life successfully evolving into today’s
humans is so low that it might as well be nil.
You
don’t need anyone to tell you that you’re talented enough, strong enough or
good enough. You already know deep inside that you are. So, don’t listen to the
naysayers. Don’t listen to those who would bring you down. Let everyone else do
as they wish, believe what they want. All you need to do is understand yourself.
Just
be yourself. Be who you want to be, who you chose to be at the moment when you
felt most at ease with the world. Let everybody else’s opinions go to hell.
It’s your life, not theirs. So, live it. Get out there, do something you’ve
always wanted to do, but could never bring yourself to do. Put yourself out
there, and let life knock you down. Because it’s in the getting back up that
you will find yourself.
And
then you will realize, once and for all, that you are good enough, and you
always have been. You will know you are and who you have always wanted to be.
Because
it’s only when you’re at your lowest point, that you start rising again – the brightest
dawn comes after the darkest night. And then you’ll find that life isn’t as
horrible as it seems sometimes. Sure, there’s definitely a lot of pain
and suffering up ahead for you; life’s no cakewalk. But you are strong
enough to get through it.
To
pick a rose, you have to risk being pricked by the thorns. Life wouldn’t be as
beautiful as it is without all the petty problems that seem to be
so painful to us right now. Without the daily mishaps, the little problems
that seem to mar our otherwise perfect days, we wouldn’t really be happy.
The
day we realize that, the day we stop focusing on the cloud, and we start
noticing the silver lining, that day we will finally realize that everything is
going to be okay. We might face a lot of problems in the world but we might
also have a lot more happiness than we can imagine or comprehend at the moment.
So, it’s time to get started on living that life you keep dreaming about. Blaze
your own trails, make your own paths. Be yourself. That is all anyone who
really loves you will ever ask of you.
"To be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and
night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the
hardest battle
which any human being can fight
and never stop fighting."
-E.E. Cummings
