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Why It Is Hard to Accept Yourself and Still Face The World with Confidence
In all honesty, you cannot not be you.
If you truly think about it then any attempt to not be you is also a very you thing to do.
Therefore, whether or not you accept yourself, you will still be you regardless of what you try.
Not because you want to be, but because you cannot not be.
It is not who you are that is the problem, but who you are supposed to be.
The world is not trying to create you and it is not telling you that who you are is okay.
Instead it tells you who you should become according to what it wants you to think.
The world we live in is a capitalistic world, and as such, money, fame, success are all tied to images of happiness.
Due to this, every bit of happiness we achieve has to relate to one of them… or so the world tries to tell us.
Study, get a degree, work hard, earn, get married, create a family, and try to rise in your company.
That is what the world tells you you should strive to be.
And as long as you fit into the paradigms set by the world everything will be good.
