I have been thinking lately about who we are as individuals. Are we who we think we are? Are we who others think we are? Maybe we're who we think others think we are?
I could think I am something much more amazing than I am; my ego might be highly swollen. Perhaps I highly underestimate my own abilities and worth. Others might see me as someone painted by someone else with a jealous or envious brush. Perhaps no one has seen the goodness that I might have hidden.
Can we really see the utter truth of each other? Not even I can fully understand myself so much of the time!! I am judgmental and egotistical and critical of myself and others. Are you different from me?
When it comes right down to it, only God can be the judge of any of us. He is the only one who can see down to the very core of our being where we are our deepest selves. It does not matter if you come to camp and sell me someone you might not sell others. It does not matter if in one place you act one way and a complete other in an other place. I am not the one who matters. You don't need to convince me that you are a good person; that you are cool or successful. I am not your final judge. I am no one of consequence.
Just keep in mind that who you are in private will come out in public so you might as well work on who you want the world to know you are and become that rather than trying to sell me on who you think I want you to be. Be real. Be you wherever you are within yourself. From there you can grow. Anything else is just a fraud.
The real you is a hundred times more interesting than any fake you that you can be.
Who do you want to be? Why are you wasting any time being anybody else?