Be Whose Self?

The quintessential solution for a young wayfarer of life trying to be cool might include, “just be yourself.”  Folks who have (perhaps) journeyed longer in life frequently present these words as a remedy for the shifting tides of human interactions and the rising and falling of a one’s personal and social image of themselves.  And this epithet is suggested with the simplicity of Nike’s motto: Just do it.

How do you do it?

Standing before the hordes of other human life, can we easily flip a switch and become “ourselves?”

The notion that one can choose to be themselves implies this dormant, true self is waiting, perhaps hiding behind the created self which we would rather portray ourselves as.

Yet, if choosing to be oneself is simple, why doesn’t this choice happen more often?  What keeps this prodigal son or daughter from actually entering our everyday life?   When I think to myself, “Just be yourself,” I then wonder how I would do that, because I’m still trying to figure out who I am.

What do you do to be yourself or to find yourself?

Why are people not themselves more often?

  Post your ideas in the comments.