What does 'be yourself' mean?

Question

all the time i get told, 'just be yourself', but i don't know who 'myself' is!

this isn't one of thoes help i don't know what sexuality i am, i am straight, it is what does this overly used phrase mean????

Answer 1

It means to be who you want to be. If someone turns down the way you look/do things. Don't listen to then. And continue wearing/doing what you like to

Answer 2

don't pretend that there is something in your personality..& that is not real...

Answer 3

Don't be a tool. If you see a group of cool kids wearing gray vests, don't go out to get a gray vest in an attempt to fit in. If someone cool says the movie "Hancock" is the best movie ever made, don't start pretending to like "Hancock." Don't follow the crowd in an attempt to fit in.

Answer 4

Well, it is pretty self explainitory. It just simply means don't try and do stuff that isn't in your personality to please others. It also means don't try and fit in, it's much better to be unuiqe than not . And if others don't agree, simply think to yourself "you laugh because im differant, but I laught because your all the same." Just act normal man. Don't be something that isn't you around others. People will like you better if youraelf.

Answer 5

not at all times that, that phrase can be rely....It is because sometimes we have to act strangely just to fit to others life.....Especially when dealing to our friends...And more often than not,the personality we replicates or acted becomes our real personality without knowing it...

Answer 6

You are always yourself and you will never know who that is to everyone else-people just don't realize it.  Just keep living

Answer 7

don't say things to try and impress people. don't act different around different people. don't be afraid to speak your mind. Say what you want, when you want to, for your own amusement. more or less, don't yell out in court..... not too much.

it may mean relax or it may mean stop acting however you act. so in that sense be yourself means "hey stop being yourself" act confident and in charge for a change. But maybe there's the secret, confident people act like they don't care.

Answer 8

be yourself ? don't try to impress any one by changing your behavior or the way you talk

say and do what is natural to you

be yourself

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Answer 9

Don't let others tell you what and who you are.