Why Is It Important and Positive to Be Yourself?

Because yourself is the only person you can be. What that looks like, however, is up to you.

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I had to put a great deal of work into becoming who I am.

That’s not to say in any way, shape, or form that I’m fully-formed or perfect. Nope, I’m still a work in progress. But the choice to be myself — and to work on what that means — was mine.

It’s really important to be yourself. Why? Because who else can you be?

It might seem like a stupid question. But really, it’s not.

I’ve tried to be someone else. I emulated another person’s way of being and attempted to be more like them than me.

Do you know how that worked out? Poorly. Why? Because I wasn’t them.

Here’s the thing. The only person in your head, heart, and soul is you. Nobody else can think, feel, act, intend, nor use your six senses to know the world around them — but you. And only you.

Are we ever taught to recognize and understand this? No, not in formal schooling. But as children, when we’re just interacting with our environment and the people around us — we’re only ourselves. Because that’s all we know how to be.