Journal #36 Being yourself

There is a great importance to being yourself!  If you try to be something you are not out, than you will never be truly happy.  This is unfair to yourself and to others.  People should know what you are like so they get a fair chance to know you.  Also, it is unfair to yourself because if you act in a way that you really do not like, than you will never be happy.  Also, you will never be able to search for who you really are because you are not being yourself. This is super important because you can also go insane if you hold secret feelings inside of yourself.  If you do not let out your true self, then you will be a very sad person.  I learned that in high school there are a lot of people who hide their true self.  They try to be like someone else so they can fit in.  This is a hard time in high school because there are a lot of fake people and you have to see who is real and who can be your friend.  I think I am mostly myself, but there are times when I keep quiet or I just agree with someone because it is the easy way out of a situation.  This happens a lot in life.  It is not called being fake all the time if you just try to solve a conflict by giving in, even if it goes against your personal beliefs.  There are times in life where you have to choose between being friendly and being yourself.  That goes for many situations in life.  You can either be mean, or you can be yourself.  It just depends how you truly are as a person when you decide how to act in a situation.  I know that there are times in life where you just want to try and be the good guy because your personality is not a mean one, but you have to shoot someone down because it is the right choice.  This is a good quality to have to a personality because you can distinguish what is write from a lose-lose situation.  You must try and come through as a person in your decisions, but life is life.  You need to be yourself, yet make all the right decisions.  Life is obviously confusing.