To Thine Own Self Be True

For some reason or another I've always fancied myself being someone other than who I am. I always thought it would be cool if I was a professional skateboarder, or a fighter pilot, or a hero of some sort, or any number of other things. It's not that I have a problem with me - I am smart, funny, reasonably good looking, generous, ambitious, caring, and kind; I am an awesomely great person. I am a lot of other things too, but I have always hoped for unrealistic advancements in myself; I suppose sometimes I take my self and my talents for granted.

I don't, of course, fail to realize my shortcomings though. I am not perfect - who is? It's taken me a while to do something about those shortcomings, though. It's taken a pretty big bump in the road of life for me to do a real self-evaluation. It's taken a major jolt to ask the question, "why?"

Through this bit of introspection, I've stopped pretending to be someone I'm not, I've stopped the daydreaming about unrealistic changes in myself. I have always known that I can improve myself, and I can be better; I can learn new things, but I know that I'm not suddenly going to become someone else simply by wishing it to be true. Like I said, I am an awesomely great person, and I'd like to think that I'm getting awesomely greater day by day. But, I am and always will be, me.

I think that Popeye said it pretty well, "I am who I am."

Right on, Popeye!

-still doesn't like spinach jonathon