Romans 12 vs 2; “Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing and perfect will of God.”

A young friend of mine asked me to write about being yourself in a time when so many people are trying very hard to be what they are not. They are defined by what society wants and expects rather than what they feel is the right thing to do.

It’s very easy to pretend and play make believe. Often times the people we see are not really the people we know. For some reason we have all been pushed into a corner where we feel we have to conform to a certain mould.

Thereafter, regardless of our individuality we try so hard to please people by pretending to be something we are not in order to be accepted. The question is; what is acceptability, what does it really mean and at what cost does trying to be who we are not affect who we really are?

It’s very easy to box people into categories of what they should be and how they should behave. What is important is to make an honest endeavour to be the people our Creator intended for us to be.

Deception is defined as the act of wantonly creating a perception that is contrary to the truth, for many our lives have become one very desperate deceptive exercise.

We feel we must go beyond the call of duty to sell ourselves in a particular manner for the purpose of keeping appearances. A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine had a very honest conversation with me in which they laid out their life in a manner they had never done before.

The exercise was both emotional and very telling, for a long time they had carried themselves with an attitude that said, “I don’t really care”, likewise I treated them based on what they were portraying.

How wrong I was, unbeknown to me they were just like the next person and were merely crying out to be treated fairly without ever really expressing dissatisfaction or anger.

Despite what we may say or portray, when all is said and done we still have to face the reality of who we are when we are alone. In solitary moments reality dawns and the pain of our everyday struggles hurts and its ills begins to weigh heavily on who we are.

Be blessed.

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