Be Yourself, Love Yourself
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By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness
Too many people want to tell you how to live, and you might be made into an outcast if you don’t follow along.
Good.
In a conformist society, to be an outcast is to be unique. Why try to please people who’ll judge you no matter what you do when you can make your own path and be free instead?
Most people want to fit in because of a sense of inadequacy and vulnerability, and they try to fill the hole in their hearts with other people’s approval. They don’t have enough self-love to know they don’t need approval to be happy, and if they loved themselves, they wouldn’t care as much about what other people think.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t try to get along with people, but we shouldn’t sacrifice who we are just to please them. We can extend ourselves a little and try to relate to them, but to mirror them or give in to peer pressure for the sake of approval is to sacrifice our uniqueness and authenticity.
We’ll know it isn’t right based on how it makes us feel, but the need to fit in is too strong for some people to notice.
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