Like me

Most of us just want to be loved for who we are.

So it seems we should just be who we are and find out who likes us, but that is scary.

What if the people who like us (and are therefore "like" us) do not seem cool?

Am I willing to risk the possibility that I may be ordinary?  Normal?  Just an everyday sort of a person?

Absolutely not!  I can put on airs with the best of them!  I can use the Music Man's think method to turn myself into a siren, a genius, a super cool hipster, even a poor needy little woman!  I can dye my hair, pick some persona that appeals to me,  and fake my way through life . . . wondering:

Why do all my relationships eventually fail?  Why am I not happy?  What is missing from my life?

And trying even more desperately to be the person I am not.

Until . . . one day I discover that what is missing from my life . . .

Is me!