What are these ‘About You’ pages all about then? What’s their true purpose? Clearly they’re an avenue for us to fashion how we want to appear to the great wide world, but why?
Why seek to filter ourselves, filter the qualities that make us who we are and end up becoming something that we are not via the choices that were presented to us? Surely it’s not just for the sake of pleasing a small set of people. I should be pleasing myself first by finding out what I truly want from my life.
For many years I thought I knew, but I am really only starting on that path now. So why not, for just a moment, present all that I am: there is no hidden agenda, no motives, no half-truths. Just me and what I know to be true to myself.
With that in mind, I can tell you that I continually struggle with my identity (crisscrossing between guises of wanting to be liked, to being Mr. Popular and back to just wanting to spend time by myself) and that’s okay.
I try not to see anything wrong with that (because there isn’t), but sometimes when others catch that true glimpse of me they are surprised by what they see. Maybe I didn’t match up to everything they thought I was, maybe I disappointed them and as a result they want nothing to do with me.
But what I know now is this: I can tell myself that everything will be okay, and that is the biggest step I can take…I’m allowing myself at least that much. I have nothing to hide and I’ll try not to hide anything.
If you think I am, call me out and I’ll be glad to discuss pretty much anything further. So long as you’re willing to accept that and who I am, I’m willing to accept you!
Thanks and Namaste.
