We're always being told to "be yourself," but I'm beginning to wonder, who is "yourself"? Our thoughts never really match up with our actions, so does "yourself" define the person you think yourself up to be, or the person you act out physically?
Think about all those times you wished you could just say what you were thinking, or express something in you to someone in front of you; or even if you think about how many times you have hidden something from someone, held back something purposely... Which one is "yourself"? The person who controls (or sometimes lacks control of) your thoughts and keeps a tab of all your inhibitions, or the person that you present to others?
Because really, if it were the latter, how many versions of ourselves are there? If you consider the person you are around your parents, the person you are around your love, the person you are around your friends, are they really all the same acts? Or do we adjust our performance depending on our audience?
It's obvious that we have to treat various relationships differently, I mean you're not going to talk to your lecturer the same way you would to your brother; but where does the line sit in separating being a certain part of yourself or simply performing in order to survive?
Are we compromising "who we are" for "who we should be"?
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