Some of the best advice I've been given was to stick to who I am. In my life, I have taken this to mean so much more than what it sounds like. To stick to who I am has caused me to learn from different life experiences and events and not let them absorb who I am as a person, or become what I've become exposed to in a way. The best way I can explain this is to relate this to how a person will be exposed to a religion and attend services. Later that person becomes that, and defies anything else that will inform them in the same matter or even to a greater extent. This is probably the best comparison I can draw because I've learned how to do this due to the advice given to me. Just such a small phrase could alter my life as I was going through a feeling of loneliness and misplacement. It might seem contradictory to say that such a thing could alter how I perceive life and now I don't let minor events effect who I am, but It's different when someone reaches out to enlighten someone and gives advice that is considered and applied to ones life, and someone taking everyone word that is heard as full truth causing them to rely on other's words and actions. To stick to who you are to me does not mean NOT going through any changes in life at all either. To live is to change over time, and to conserve whatever state a being is in is to be static and causes death in many different perspectives. So when someone sticks to who they are and changes, they can alter the way they live, and still have a sense of knowing ones self. When someone feels they know who they are, it is easier to go through paradigm shifting changes in life.
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