They sound about the same, but are they?
This morning, trying to ‘arrange’ my very curly hair (to utilize its naturalness more fully and wondering how it would turn out, because it’s a ‘never the same twice’ hairdo), I thought, ‘I’m just going to be me. Let the locks fall where they may’!
That’s really what we all want…acceptance of who we are, where we are, as we are!
LET ME BE ME!
But why do we need permission from somebody else to be who we are?
That’s where the ‘you be you‘ phrase got involved.
Many times, I think, when people tell us, ‘you be you’, there is another motive involved. They want you to be who they want you to be. And if you look around, all the ‘you be you-ers‘ look alike in many ways.
Not saying we have to become an oddball and do something crazy or hurtful to us or others to be ‘unique’. That’s not ‘me being me’. That’s trying to force your place when you already have a place.
Why is it so hard to get past what other people think? Because we all seek approval. But the good approval we need isn’t going to pull us down to a lesser version of ourselves. True approval will help/encourage us to be better, stronger, wiser, more reliant on our own judgement – not seeking wrong approvals.
This is where you will find your self-confidence. As you begin to launch out into the new and improved ‘let me be me‘ person, you will develop and grow into the better, stronger, wiser individual you always wanted to be!
Truly, let’s move forward together as ‘let me be me-ers‘ and become, each of us, who we really are.
There is so much good we can do once we allow ourselves to be and do what we are made to be and do.
Mrs. Goodfinder 