I Am Learning to Be Myself

I have fulfilled several different roles in my lifetime...obedient daughter, loving mother, understanding step-mother, faithful wife....now at 50 years old, I'm taking on a new role....Me...Penny...that's all...just me...it's about...

I used to worry about what people would think if I was myself. Would they like me or hate me but at this point in my life I don't care anymore. I don't want my daughter to be afraid to be herself. So I am making myself a promise right...

I have recently found my self divorced and alone. I did not realize until recently, while feverishly reading all I can on self help and personal growth, that I apparently have never grown oout of the approval and security seeking stage...

I hosted my first party last night.

While married, he insisted on determining the guest list, creating the menu, cooking the food, and planning the activities (and yet he considered them "our" parties...lol).

Everyone had a great time...

Ive been on the path to being myself for a long, long time. I truley dont know whats stopping me. I honestly feel like people would love the real me, but there is still some part of me that doesnt allow my true self to shine through. I...

i am trying to be myself . i am just trying to take it day by day.  i am a little proud of myself . i didn't blow up on any customers today.

I'm learning to be myself find my wants and desires and do them rather than do what others think I should do.

I always tweet on Twitter "love yourself" which I used to build my own identity. I believe that love should first sprout from the person herself.

There are so many things, factors around that sometimes you give up and lose control of...

It is such a slow process.  Life has been on my face like an iron mask.  Changing me and molding me to its will for so long I am not even sure what it under it any more.  But the iron mask is coming off.  It is in bits and pieces...

The definitive advice that I received on the Psych ward when I was 13 years old was "Be yourself. We like you.  It is your attempt to be whatever it is you think you should be, that is disturbing us."It was good advice.  I took it...

Most of my life I tried not being my self to fit in but I learn that never works for me. Because of that, I learned to accept to be my self. Though I know me being my self, very feel people will accept me. But I guess that is just part...

Aside from the fact that it's already challenging to be yourself for fear of being judged, it's also challenging when you aren't all that quite sure of who you are yourself. It truly astounds me when people are sure of themselves, I...

After so many years of always being what someone else wanted me to be, having them make all the decisions about what i can and can not do. I'm now slowly learning how to just to be me and yes it feels good. Even the simplest things like...

Yes this group title, thxx for that.

just started to write and make my homework now.
im workin on my studie for myself,
learnin more and get to know myself better.

Strange that the older you get, the less you seem to know who you really are.  I am still a daughter, though my parents are very elderly and live in another country.  I am a widow, rather than a wife, and sometimes I would give...