This above all, to thine own self be true

I love the words of Shakespeare, he had such insight into human nature. Every time I here this line I think of the movie "Renaissance Man" and the rap the army class did with these words. Being true to yourself: your thoughts, your actions, your character, your beliefs. It sounds easy, but is it? How many times have we shrunk back from sticking up for our beliefs? Or have our actions not be in accordance to what, and who we are as Children of the Most High God? How many times have we had "untrue" thoughts about ourselves? I know I've stuggled with being ture to myself ... I am a people pleaser to the core and have caught myself on numerous occassions "becoming" what I thought other people wanted me to be. I've become better at staying true to me in the recent past and am striving to be better at it. My friends can now tell when I'm saying something I don't truly believe and call me out on it, so it helps. One instance was that night in institue I wrote about earlier... I said I was okay with what was said cause I didn't know how to articulate what I was thinking, and didn't want to cause an arguement and my friend called me out on it, but I couldn't put my thoughts together so I let it go.
I've come to realize there are really only two people you have to answer to in the end anyway, Yourself and the Lord. So what everyone else thinks really doesn't matter at all.