Stay true

   I never really understood what it meant to stay true to oneself until I took the time to leave everything behind and just think about ME for once. What I discovered was that staying true to yourself means to never do something you don’t want to do, don’t allow others to change your own opinion about yourself, and love yourself first.

   A lot of these concepts are hard to handle, and it took me a little while to grasp even a fine string of each, and it’s still a process to get a handle on it. But understanding the fundamentals of it is where it all starts, and there is only room for growth from there.

   There are so many benefits from being true to yourself, and to sit here and list and talk about them would take forever, but really they should be obvious and every day that you are on this journey of discovery you will find that there are more and more positive reasons to be true to yourself and less and less negative reasons.

   I know we can all be down on ourselves, some more than others, but when you learn to love yourself nothing can ever permanently put you in that hole that you already have yourself in. I’ve been there, and I’ve felt at my lowest, and honestly I never want to go back there.

   I stay true to myself by being honest to myself on places that I go, people I talk to, things I let bother me, and so on, and the more you try to put yourself first in your own life, the easier it becomes.