Posted by Damos on November 3, 2005, at 22:01:22
In reply to Do you ever think that just being yourself isn't, posted by TamaraJ on November 3, 2005, at 19:38:07
Pretty much every minute of every day my whole damn life. I'm not the most open person either, and am notoriously bad at letting people in and to get to know me. Can identify with the always standing on the outside looking in stuff too.
Trying to be different for everyone elses benefit doesn't work. Eventually it gets too hard to keep up the pretending, and it only really ends up hurting you in the end because you spend so much time being the characters that you forget who you are.
Just be you TamaraJ cause that's always seemed pretty nice to me. And acceptance for acceptance sake is way different to being genuinely accepted for who you are. If there's something that you really think doesn't work for you then yeah do something about it. But just don't think that everything about you is wrong or whatever.
Take care okay.
poster:Damos
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