It doesn’t sound that hard to “be yourself”. But I have spent a life time with that very notion. I love being around people who let me be myself. I am working spiritually on being my best self. I love it when people I hang out with are comfortable enough and in the right mood and can have the time to “be themselves”. Wow! A lot of words to do something so simple. A lot of emotion around the notion of something so innate. Or is it that simple? Do we really know who that self is that we like to say we are?

I wonder if the idea boils down to honesty. Can you be true to yourself and if you can, who is that? Who do you bring to the table of friendship when you say: “this is who I am”? How do you know when your friend is being his/herself?

It’s a crapshoot I guess. I lose myself in the mystery of who I am and who is this loved one of mine. Who is that person with whom I am trying to connect? It’s a matter of faith and of listening to your heart. When all else fails I come back to “Namaste”.

Namaste ~ I honor the place in you in which the whole universe dwells. I honor the place in you that is love, truth, and peace. When you are in that place in you and I am in that place with me, we are one.

There is goodness in each of us. I am going to spend some quiet time reflecting on what that goodness is. Who am I when I am authentically living the life that is the goodness inside of me? My hunch is the goodness in me will want to hang out with the goodness in you. Then there is no risk at all.

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