The ONE-WAY journey to "BEING YOU"
Being you is not a question of actions you take. It's a MINDSET. Being you is not something you have to travel very far to achieve. The whole action takes place in YOUR HEAD. Being you is a DECISION.
As complicated as this sounds, there's just one way to be you; If we break down so many ways, it will be obvious that they all emanate from this one way.
The only way to be you is to BE YOU.
Yes. BE YOU. That's the only way to be you. People always say it's not as easy as it sounds, but trust me, it is.
There's a principle to follow. I call it the FBR principle. FBR stands for: Find, Be, and Remain. In other words, you have to Find You, Be You, and Remain You. Let's discuss this.
Finding the real "You" has to do with getting to know that aspect of your life that flows without struggle. In essence, your TALENT is the real You.
Being You means working on what you get to know about yourself and your abilities.
To remain you, is to consistently work on your talent, upgrade it, find out if there's more and never give up on you. To remain you, is to focus on being You, without feeling inferior because of what others are. Inferiority is a mindset and so is success. To succeed as a person, choose to feel good about yourself and not measure your success by other people's achievement.
Now, there is great danger in trying to be someone else. The danger is that you chase people away from finding out the real YOU.
If you're trying to copy a celebrity for example, you dress exactly like him, imbibe his style of language, and copy all sorts of things, when people look at you, they will admire you but not for long. You know why? - because they will get to see the real person you're trying to copy and then admire them instead. Nobody likes "photocopy", everybody likes the original better. Photocopy stands as a cheap article and alternative option. With this attitude of trying to be what we are not, some of us have contributed greatly to giving others more fans, to the detriment of promoting ourselves. Notice the way people refer to the original when comparing it with the copycat version:
Let's take Adele's popular song for an example- HELLO. So many people sang a cover of that song. Let's assume an artiste named Janie, sings a cover too. People won't refer to it as "Janie's Hello", instead they would say " Janie's COVER of Adele's Hello". And people will want to find out what the Original version sounds like.
Take cognizance of the fact that even if you copy someone and do it better than the real owner, you still won't be celebrated like the owner, because as corrupt as the world is, it doesn't celebrate copycats, it celebrates authors. So strive to be an author today, by BEING YOU.
Discouragements may set in when you strive to be you, but never forget "Being you, always works out".
Celebrities today, never gave up on their real selves and that's why they became what they are today. Don't give up on YOU. You wield so much power to make or mar your destiny. Don't misuse it. Don't live people's lives for them. live yours.
Finally, to know who you really are, Get to know God. Get to know who he is; because all that you are, you are in him. You're nothing without him. You cannot find the real YOU without him. So pray to God today and ask him to help you find the real you. He gladly will. Youths, BE YOU.
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