Be Yourself

                                              Unique You

If You're a part of any social networking site, you can certainly claim that your eyes have hovered past any bold picture comprising the words, 'Be yourself', 'Do what you want' and other such taglines like these. These lines speak of what you should be, what kind of a person you should be like, how you should act, how you should walk and how you should live. These choices are based on your free-will; no one can force anything on you. 

    

    

A human being has the freedom to bring changes in him\herself according to their own aspirations, according to what they want and not what others want to see. One should never be afraid to change because change is good. You should not listen to what another person has in store for you until unless you can appreciate criticism and take it positively. Change is something natural which occurs in the cycle of life so when somebody tells you that you've changed, this is nothing to worry about. 

This proves that in the period of time, you've stood up for different things, you've allowed various perspectives to enrich your mind. The worst someone can to do himself or herself is to try and imulate someone because they think that the other person is considerably better then what they are and copying each and every thing of them will make you better yourself. The misconception lies here because you see, when you copy someone, you're acting, it is not your true self, that person which you are becoming is not you. You've hidden yourself deep underneath your skin and you faking to be the other person is just a copy of that person. You are not extant in this world because the person who you truly are, the traits possessed by you in real life are nowhere to be found on Earth.

The main lesson you need to learn about being yourself is to hold yourself in high self-esteem, to believe in your actions and to stand up for what you think is right, confidently. If you know what you are doing is correct, then do it. But what is important here is not to be tenacious and refusing to accept that you're wrong. There are two scenarios; the first one being, when someone insults you or disregards any of your decision and you firmly belief that your act is correct on behalf of what you think and what you're comfortable with. The other scenario is when in between of an argument or a debate, when your decision affects both individuals but you are persistent in what you think. That is what's wrong. Because matters that affect two people aren't matter that should be handled by one.

Leaving that aside, a person once said, ''Be the best version of yourself.'' This means to reach the highest goal that you can reach whilst being true to who you are, when you start copying someone, that is the lowest version of someone else. This also means to avoid hypocrisy, to show who you really are, to others even if they might not like it. ''When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.'' -Steven Pinker. An original is far more worthy than a copy, a painting that is painted by a famous and reputable artist will sell in thousands but take the same scenery or the same pattern and get it painted by some amateur, it'll sell in dimes. You have to be yourself because everyone is already taken