'Be yourself...after all, who else can you be?', they claim with a casual, almost cavalier presumption.
As if the notion of self realisation is a fait accompli.
Rubbish.
I can be anything but myself with astonishing alacrity.
Never underestimate the pain and suffering that come from trying to be who you really are, in the face of enormous adversity; from other people, as well as from yourself.
Such underestimation has killed many along the way.
So don't sell short the perils and pitfalls of 'being you'. It's a tough road- & knowing this can be of great comfort in the long run.
And this is, after all, about the 'long run'.
The Long Run of the soul.
