Are You Being Your Authentic Self?
In a world teeming with seven billion people, who am I? To answer this question we need to understand the importance of authenticity for self and society. This is not a philosophical quest, nor an esoteric one. Simply a question to ascertain who I actually am. Am I the one who feels the need to plaster a smile on her face even if she doesn’t want to smile, simply because social etiquettes warrant it? Am I the one who bends over backward to accommodate someone even if it causes her immense pain? Or the one whose default setting is people-pleasing? […]