“BE URSELF”
Often, we hear about this term “Be Yourself”. Have you ever thought what does being yourself means? Do I know myself enough to be myself? Its intriguing isn’t it?
Whenever I was told in school, college — be yourself I use to act/imitate the person whom I admired and wondered each time why the hell I fail? I was being my kind of myself.
It was only last night this thought stuck by me and I kept on asking what is means to be yourself. Then the explorer within me woke up and we started the journey to decode it. Then the small talks started between the explorer me and myself.
Explorer said — Oh and you thought you know what it means to be yourself. I said yes. I am being myself for last several years. Really and the explorer me said. It asked who are you? Do you even know yourself to be yourself? I wondered Oh who am I? My eyes were wide open, looked at explorer and confessed no I don’t know myself well, in fact I never thought about it. The explorer me was all excited and said come I will take you on this time machine and it would be most awesome journey of your life. We went through childhood, adolescence, professional life and I could see that — I am this magnificent high energy ball moving around without gravity, so free, inculcating love, helping people with deep compassion, building great connections with exuberance and gratitude.
I was awestruck — Oh is that me. Yes, the explorer said. Why I was acting with unawareness for so many years I said? Explorer said Oh you were so stuck and busy with your outer world, trying to prove yourself without knowing who you really are. It was a moment of realization and now can say I truly know who I am and what it means to be yourself.
