There are people who bring out the most sincere, authentic and true of us, are the ones who gain in depth in us, who explore our essence and make us appreciate how wonderful it is to feel good about yourself.
It is these people who have something difficult to define that invite us to have full confidence, to feel in total freedom to behave the way we want and how the body asks us at all times.
- Being yourself has become an exception without a rule.
- Which often makes us uncomfortable.
- This is due to the fear of being judged and labeled.
- Which means that at the end of the day we hide our real interests so as not to have to face certain situations.
You can’t be yourself at all when you’re in public, because being in public already involves some self-defense.
John Lennon
Sometimes we deny that we like a certain song or that we are interested in certain hobbies; at other times, we may disclose or omit information about us that is requested or that we would like to share with you.
In this way, little by little, we cease to be ourselves for others or even in our inner life, which is much more serious and disturbing.
That is, not acting as we would like ends up exhausting us, which causes an emotional impoverishment that leaves us immersed in a mixture of sadness, melancholy and apathy, which obviously has consequences for our relationships, which in turn are less and less. Satisfactory.
Sometimes we meet people with who we can be ourselves and who make us feel very good, with this impulse we let ourselves be freed from those emotional bonds and hope again.
The case is that this type of connection is not frequent, so it is necessary to appreciate every moment we live with them, because they help us to contemplate ourselves and work our essence.
Friendship with yourself is of the utmost importance, because without it, you can’t be friends with anyone in the world.
? Eleanor Roosevelt?
As we have mentioned so far, being yourself in total freedom is quite complicated, as it depends a lot on how comfortable you feel with others. However, the real work to be done is ourselves; that is, being oneself requires knowledge of oneself. In this sense, let’s see what we can do:
One of the most difficult challenges is being yourself in a world where most people seek to appear more than it is. It’s hard to value yourself, but there’s no such high price for the privilege of being yourself.