“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
How often have you tried to fit in, be like someone else, or act like another? For the longest time, it seems like that’s all I really did. I had real idea who I was, what I liked, and was incredibly afraid to be myself because I thought if I was, no one would like me. The problem was that in being what everyone else thought I should be, I ended up not liking myself much at all. In fact, I ultimately loathed myself more than not all the times I played that chameleon and adapted to any of those I spent time with. It wasn’t until I stopped trying to be like everyone else did I truly find myself. And when I did, I learned I was actually a pretty neat guy, quite unique and extraordinary in my own way. Which is why I believe it’s so important now for me to always be myself, than be like anyone else, because I finally am learning to like myself just as I am.
I pray that I may let go of trying to be like anyone else in life and that I learn who I really am inside. Help me to be myself no matter what and help me to like what I find deep within.
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson