"Just be yourself!!" how many times in life have we heard this advice? In a situation where you don't know how to react or simply lose the sanity and logic, somebody who doesn't know what else to do, tells you the ultimate magical words, 'be yourself'! All so-called self-help books, magazines, cosmetics ads etc etc celebrate 'being yourself', where the irony is, all of these work exactly the opposite way...they tell you how to change your attitude, behaviour, appearance in order to get what you can't possibly get just by being yourself.
What do u mean by being urself? Sit on ur a** with a stubborn attitude of not changing ur screwed up opinions about something or someone?? or is it just a form of laziness not to accept ur own weaknesses and defficiencies, or rather...instead of acknowledging them and trying to work on 'em, just take it as "the way it is"?? So the stuff like self-improvement and growing up as a person, doesnt exist anymore? I think its a rather misunderstood phrase, one meaning that could be extracted from it is not trying to be someone you are not. But then again, what about following your ideals in life? If somebody wants to be like Mother Teresa or Narayanmurthy, is it still advisable not to try to be someone you are not but you really want to be?
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Interesting post Varsha...
I guess what the "just be yourself" ideal really means is take the best of out life & apply it in such a way that it's from your heart & not a forced action.
So often we need to do things because they're necessary not because we really want to - but if done from our heart, it'll be us doing it & not the thing forcing us.
And if we choose to follow an ideal (like Mother Teresa) even then we should do it from our hearts, then it becomes her ideal but through us ... & then it'll be unique & us "just being ourselves"!
being urself is itself a joyable.
if some books says,change urself for getting something done,
then it depends on us,to how much extent we are ready to change for the thing we wanted.
Quite delayed.. but neways..
I still dont understand the question.
Isnt the "desire to follow your ideals" such as Mother Teresa in part defines who you are?
Isnt the "willingness to improvise on your shortcomings" in part defines who you are?
On the other hand, "believing that you are perfect, and would keep sitting on your a** and not change ever", again in part defines who you are?
I think any of the above behaviors do not contradict with the suggestion to "be yourself".
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