Fantastically Me

I heard this said today..."Why do you worry about what everyone else thinks? Just be you, fantastically you.". I love it. Yes, we should just be us, us in every way. Why do we strive to put on the "show" for everyone else? What do we really get from that? Well for me it's a little more complicated then just trying to please everyone. I am me...most of the time. I try every day to really be ME. ME is: funny, happy go lucky, open, honest, caring, competitive, loving, sensitive, serious. I guess I'm just ME. I don't know how to explain that. I do care about making others happy though. Making other people laugh or smile, makes me happy. That is part of me too. I am a giver. Probably too much sometimes, another fault of mine. If you call that a fault. That quote struck me today, hit a chord in me and made me stop. Someone else just wants me to be "ME". It's about time! I think often we try to be someone we are not. I am a woman, a wife, a mother. I am not perfect and I am full of flaws, flaws that make each of us who we are. I don't want to change, I shouldn't have to. I'm embracing me for who I am and what I am. Today is a new day.