“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I owe a great amount of my personal happiness and success to listening to myself and then embracing the path onto which it guides me. The forces of socio-cultural influence bear down with incredible strength upon our will. But our internal compass may often require us to negotiate the tension we feel vis-a-vis our external system and choose against the demands of that context. A commitment to humility and truth will serve as dependable guides in this process.
I really like this post. I agree. The world in which you know - for we all know different worlds according to our own personal life context - is always trying to tell you to be one thing or another...and it can be hard to be yourself. Especially when you feel people won't like you as your real self.
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