The Art of Being Yourself
In a society where it sometimes seems image is everything and to some the only thing, it can sometimes be difficult to stand out in the bunch. Everything now-a-days is about buy this, wear that, talk like this, walk like that, and these pressures on a young society can be very pressing at times. There are many in the world who have become influenced by what everyone else would like them to be, but those people have really never stopped to ask themselves, what do I want to be? What do I want to do? Where I would like to go? These questions are the vital tools that will help you create your own blueprint for your life. Without you asking yourself these questions you’re just a walking rough draft or better yet a copy of something or someone else.
Similar to the tools an artist uses to fill a blank canvas, your tools should ultimately be the questions that aspire what you would like to lie ahead of you in life, for this will be your equipment for filling that blank canvas of yourself. Now i’m not saying that you shouldn’t buy the things you like whether they’re promoted or not, or follow any particular beliefs, morals or practices that may have been out since the stone age, but you shouldn’t want to be exactly somebody else because you are not taking the time to think on your own. We as humans have way too much creativity to be walking clones. For example, an artist with brush in hand paints a beautiful landscape with reds, greens, blues, and purples. It’s fine for you to use those colors, but there begets a whole new problem when you use those same colors and produce the same exact landscape with no style of your own. I have my own style and you have your own style, apply your colors as you see needed from your own expressions and the art you create will be as beautiful as the art you may admire.
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” ~Raymond Hull
