They say ‘Be Yourself’. Everyone puts so much impostance onto that one phrase. Yet everyone is falling over themselves in their eagerness to be what someone else wants them to be. Why? WHy is it so important for us to impress everyone we see ESPECIALLY when it means we have to become someone else? Our parents and teachers strive to raise us to be thinking individuals who believe in themselves and stand by what they are. So why is it that the moment we see  someone even slightly beyond the reach of our regular circle do we change ourselves so entirely? If you can’t ‘be yourself’ around someone to get them to like you, are they worth being with in the first place?

It’s almost like the purpose of our lives- to impress others. I like to call this phenomenon ‘Mission Impression’; and I find it extremely futile. Today you change yourself to fit in among some people, tomorrow they realise they’d rather be elsewhere; so while they are now changing themselves to fit in with another group, you are left wallowing in self pity, wondering just WHAT went wrong, because at this stage you are clearly not you, and you are definitely not what you so badly wanted to become. I’m sure most of us have faced this situation more than once, yet we refuse to learn. Why are we so insecure? Are we not happy to be who we are? Why are we so obsessed about living as human chameleons? Shouldn’t we be fed up, atleast by now, of lib=ving our lives by others’ rules??