its about being yourself!

The question comes up at one time or another .. what is the goal of life? Why am I here? What am I doing? Why am I doing it? I have thought about these questions several times but never did it stand out to me the way it did on a wintery afternoon last week. I was writing in my diary. I saw the words ".. really, life is about being yourself" being typed. I didnt really think about it; which is what made it beautiful. It just came from within me; just like that.

Then I paused and pondered. What did I really mean? It's really quite simple. We spend our lives going from one thing to the next - job, career, marriage, children, family, finances, homes, travel, vacations, hobbies all in a pursuit to occupy ourselves and be happy; happy with ourselves. We may say that we are doing it all to make other people happy but really if we ourselves are not happy, the quest does not end. And what does it really mean to be happy with ourselves. If we are just comfortable BEING ourselves; isnt that all we are really seeking. I asked myself -- if I can pause and look at myself and have the strength just to be myself; isnt that all there is to it. Everything else will follow from the strength and peace that comes from just being myself. Accepting and loving myself for what I am. Its seems so simple but it feels like I have spent my entire life so far not doing very much of it.

So, as I close on 2003 and stand at the rise of 2004, I am asking myself, if and how I can just be myself.

Comments

[V-man]

This really begs the question. What is yourself? I feel the self is always changing. How do you know what you are? And if you don't know what you are what does it mean to be 'be yourself'.

I have often found that there is lot of internal discomfort. Maybe being yourself is being aware of these internal discomforts, acknowledge them, understand them and work through them.

[pradnya]

anoo
that sounds like me inside you...physically apart and emotionally with the same umbilical cords connecting us. u look lively and boistrous to me.. honest eyes and self motivated from your words... that's me again.
i have no such websiteand am a bit unchooled in these techie aspects. i write and keep to myself, at times send to abhijit or some such soulmates who are internally connected with me.
i am on search and so are you and so we crosseed paths. cheers! lets celebrate wherever we are together in hearts.
my boss has resigned today so our fate will get transformed shortly, we may become an ngo within icrisat or a part of another dept. this is a major shock for several and we are getting sympathetic looks as to where will we go after this??? i know where and my tow other colleagues too know where they want to go, so we are cool and collected. hoever the transition is a process we all will take forwrad and se where and how we shape our own destinies herafter.
amen
luv
prads(feel free to call me thus)

[shimadatoma]

I am curious to know how being yourself has been since this entry in 2003. There are many, many more entries that I could read, but I'm wondering if there is one that helps me grasp the essence of what it is like to practice just being yourself.

I have finally arrived at this place that you have found. I've restoried some of the situations in my life that used to take the wind of my sails. Now, I create my own winds and my own sails. It's quite an adventure.

It really is as simple as you say. I just need to keep reminding myself. Just be myself.

[jackie]

It's easy saying to be yourself, but then actually being yourself is somehow hard. When there are posers stereo typing and such. But the truth of getting to yourself is by going through the process of trying to find yourself. Some people, having a life with family and a job, don't really know there purpose of life. In order to be yourself and be happy being yourself would have to be by finding your real self.

[Kyria]

I think being yourself is about knowing what your purpose in life is. You shouldn't have to put on a front when you are around others just be yourself. If people don't like you for who you are then don't worry about it.