Being yourself !!

Whats new about this?? being yourself? we all hear about it since we are born...as we grow up...enter the kindergarten..then elementary ..high school..university..work....marriage ...ah!!! long process of being yourself. Does it work? At what proportion does it work??

Lets start from being a toddler....the messiest time of anyone's life..how could you expect him to be " himself" while he is putting his toy in the washing machine, trying to insert his tiny fingers into the holes of the pin plugs !!

As soon as he enters the kindergarten his whole life topples up from a care free lifestyle ( which obviously he will never enjoy in his life) to a more formal setting. Battling with phonics, drawing, coloring, friends..he builds up his resistance .. if he has the choice to be himself..do you think he would ever continue being in school.

More subjects, languages and expectations builds up as he moves up in his grade from elementary to high school...unit assessment, projects, exams, on top of it being disciplined and following rules....

Getting enrolled into a university changes our lives forever....greater decisions to make... could you be yourself over there??? it is when you start working you see the real dynamics and colors of life....and if you ask him to be himself at his workplace...ain't you asking for more than he could take in ???? Does he have a choice afterall??

When I see the small ones in my school everyday....are we being fair telling them "be yourself?"