In this 'make believe' world of today, many of us forget our own identity or even reshape our identity to be acceptable to a group that we long to be part of. Probably, it's the the basic human inclination to be with the Jones's - or in the language of the Behavioural Scientist, the human being's desperate need of a 'stroke'. Such relationships are doomed to extreme short life periods ending in unimaginable sorrow and a sour after taste to the individual who'd been behind the facade!
The cause is simple and the following factors contribute:-
(a) One cannot kid one's conscience all the time.
(b) Living behind a facade extracts emotional and at times, physical indulgence which are stress producers.
(c) When the realisation dawns that one needs to be happy to spread happiness and consequently, gain acceptability in any group.
And it's here that I'd like to share with you something that I'd recently come across and I'm reproducing it below. I quote,
"In the history of the universe, there has been nobody like and to the infinite of time to come, there will be no one like you. Existence should have loved you so much that it broke the mould after making you, so that another of your kind will never get repeated. You are original. You are rare. You are unique. You are a wonder. You are a masterpiece.............your Master's piece. Celebrate your Uniqueness".
So, there is no necessity for you to strip yourself off your originality to suit someone's whims and if you do, it will be at your own peril!!
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