“Be you”. It’s one of those phrases that floats around self-help and spiritual circles like it explains itself.
It gets said warmly, and most everyone nods as if they all know what it means.
Yet I spent years asking…and no one could answer me.
This poem reflects the moment I decided to take the words literally – in the literal sense!
Turns out it’s not a demand to be sweet, accommodating and accepting. Which, let’s be honest, is often the implication from certain teachers.
Instead, I found a challenge to welcome in all of myself. The lost parts. The shattered identity. The self and the Self.
Because “be you” makes one out of two: The ordinary, everyday you. The deeper, eternal You.
It asks without drama: can you love all of yourself, exactly as you are?
And then, as a natural continuation: where are you trying too hard to be something you’re not, in the hopes of acceptance, recognition or safety?
TL;DR:
“Be you” can sound like another mask to put on. But taken literally, it’s a homecoming to who you really are, at every level.
What might change if you began releasing what isn’t you?
Sara
