“Just be yourself. ‘You’ fits you best. Besides, everyone else is taken.”
Have you ever struggled with being yourself? As in feeling very uncomfortable with living under your own skin that you’d rather choose to be a copy version of someone else than be 100% yourself? ☹️
If you’ve ever felt that way or feel that well … I know that feel 😌
I recall that period in my life when I just wasn’t OK with being Me. And so I tried forcing myself to become like someone other folks who I considered rockstars . My thought back then was that some how God sent me down to Earth in a hurry that He forgot to endow me with gifts, talents and special abilities to share with the world just as He had done with those rockstars I was dying to be like. 😐
As you’d imagine my attempts to become like someone else turned out miserable. It was frustrating. 😞That was like trying to fit a triangular object into a square box… just won’t fit 💯
Looking back to that period🧐, i realized why i wasn’t ok with being myself. And it was simple. I didnt know myself enough to value/love myself and that was why it became difficult to accept and be myself 😑 ( it can be hard to love someone you don’t know especially in the context of a relationship, right? )
With this realization I had to go back to know Me more so I could love/value/appreciate Me more. It was in doing this that I started becoming OK with accepting myself and not wishing I was someone else but choosing Me instead 😃
“choose You, know You, love You, accept You and BE You. Don’t be or wish to be someone else”
Bottomline: I believe that when we get to know/appreciate ourselves more deeply (I.e. our gifts, talents, uniqueness, etc those things that make us special and different), we can value/love ourselves better and be OK with being ourselves ✅️😊.
Truth is that everyone else is taken… so if you choose to become someone else who’s going to be You? Who’s going to deliver to the world the package that God put inside of you to give to the world? (You got it ! Nobody will but You 👆)
So, i say to you – choose You, know You, love You, accept You and BE You. Don’t be or wish to be someone else. ‘You’ works and fits best for you as created by God🙂
To the best version of YOU!