"Be yourself", people say! Have you really ever thought about it? What it actually means? I'm not questioning the proverb. Let me give you a sneak-peak into what I feel the fuss is all about. Ever since we were born, our parents have imparted their values and virtues. As we grew up, society has taught us or have been influential upon our character building. There were things that the World taught us and then some of it, etched by Time. We follow some/all religiously without questioning.
Stability means holding on to something, anything! We become an adult and tread on our own venture. Throughout the journey, we've always been told to either "Be Yourself" or "Behave Yourself" by someone in someway. It happens to all of us at some point of time or many. Such a Conformist, this Society is! Everyone keeps yapping the same wretched proverb, sprint the same rat-race, but do they even comprehend what they speak of or what they're doing? All our lives, we've been a Student by will or against it. Our thoughts/ideologies/values/perspectives have always steered in different directions as a result of what others have opinionated/shared and by what we experience. If there's some philosophical premise you hold onto at the moment, it's what you've adopted through something. A midst all these ruckus, where is the integrity of our mind? It hasn't been Original at all. It's the result of the bondage to everything around us since birth. Our mind is occupied with too many things that pleasure us in someway or the other. I don't say the original/unique thought never comes to mind. It does, but only when the mind is free, which isn't a walk in the park. We naturally seek a thought process that suits the best with the characteristics of our nature(which again is an implementation of all our life experiences, Experienced or Borrowed!) and we stick to it. Isn't that the case, always? Now, don't you think, whenever you tell someone to "Be yourself", it should put that person in a pensive mode to first find out what he was, in the first place? A learner! Correct, now it's his call whether or not he chooses to learn the situation that stands in front of him. It's that simple! When all our values have been an interpretation of the Nature upon us, who're we to insinuate what's right or wrong?
This post was inspired by a person I know who met with an accident, and has always done outrageous things.(No exaggeration!) A total Rebel! I concluded, thinking it's not his mistake, it's his individuality. Towards the end, we all have to kick the dirt! You DON'T really matter unless you stand up to something or engrave your deeds on the Timeless Memory of this World.
