"Be yourself", I feel is the worst advice we get and pass to others. Does "be yourself" really mean something? we humans get our behavior and habits from our surroundings. As per the studies, till the age of nine, we set the base for ourselves mostly by seeing people around us. If you are born in a shitty place with people believing in shitty thoughts our minds are also fucked up and then does "be yourself" advice really make sense?
Nowadays we have TV channels, social networking websites that are telling us what to think and are implanting thoughts in our minds. In someway they are making us what we are, so who are we as an individual? The answer is - a byproduct of everything around us.
The upbringing of someone who is born in a poor family is focused completely on earning money. So for someone born in such a background would be yourself really boil to hard work and earning money?
Now you might be thinking that this blog is going towards the financial disparity among people and the advice of being yourself holds good for the rich guys while not for the poor ones. But that's not quite the case. This is because there are things which the upbringing of a super-rich kid might not teach him. In general, having things at their disposal might lead them to believe that hard work is always not required.
I think there is nothing like being yourself, there was never. We should not blindly ask or create an environment where kids idealize parents or the society they are living in. We should accept our mistakes in front of them, let them explore things that we never approve of. And one more thing, let's be kids again and not be ourself :)
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