When You Struggle with Being Yourself, Remember This
âMake the most of yourself… for that is all there is of you.â ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day, it was more or less the same. I presented an edited version of myself to the world. I felt a deep level of discomfort with the idea of letting myself go. Could I? Should I? The answer was ânoâ every time, even if it wasnât always a conscious decision.
It felt wrong to be myself in a society where weâre conditioned to believe that we have to look and be a certain way to fit in. I believed that no one …