Why is it so hard to be “true to yourself?”

Siempre Arriving
Nov 7 · 4 min read

I am a fake, a phony, a fraud. I am inauthentic. Why can’t I be true to myself?
- Me

Meanwhile, William Shakespeare authors these words through the character Polonius in Hamlet,

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not be false to any man.

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