Let's be Real

 Find the Real You

Written by: Arooj Shahbaz ( Lahore, Pakistan)

Do you ever feel that you are acting differently at work and at home do you ever feel like you are faking?

I'm not referring to acting and dressing professionally. However, when you feel like you're portraying someone else at work or continually editing your appearance to fit a certain image.

I refer to this as your "fake you"

Work is a place to be professional and attentive, but it's also a place where you should feel at ease. You won't feel at ease or be bringing your best self to work if you believe that you can't let your personality shine.

It's true that occasionally you have to consider how well an organization's culture fits. It's possible that you need to choose a job that is more in line with your ideals if you want to be the "true you" at work. However, you can discover that even if you think your personality wouldn't suit well at work, that's actually not the case.

Sometimes we just loss the real essence of ourselves just to fit into others life and at last what we get just betrayal.

I realized from my life experiences that all of us just trying to make others happy and just associated our happiness with others what these things just done to us that they only let us lose the real us and we just become puppet of their hands. 

 There are some things that helps us to be the real:

1.  Give time to yourself 
2.  Look deep into yourself
3.  Don't hide your emotions and feelings 
4.  Be present in the moment 
5.  Speak truth 
6.  Step back to get new perspectives
7.  Look for Internal and External influences 
8.  Don't fake yourself for others.

At last I just want to say that try to be yourself as much as you can live your life fully and authentically.

"To discover ourselves, we occasionally have to lose ourselves"