Opinions

I have heard it said that when you submit to someone else's opinions you lose a part of yourself.

How true is this. We so often submit to someone else's opinions of who we are and how we should live, and when we do I believe that we lose a part of ourselves.

Now this being said I am sure this isn't always a bad thing, I think people are put into our lives to help us change, to mold us to help us grow to be better people, or achieve who we really are to be, to keep us on track in life, so submitting to some opinions can be good.

But those aren't the opinions that I am talking about. I am talking about the ones like..what you dont have five kids yet you are wasting your life? what you better get married now your clock is ticking? or the take that hat off, you dont wear hats in church? or what are you doing calling yourself a christian and sitting in a bar? or that isnt the proper way to talk to someone, or proper way to be, or proper way to do your hair..you get the point.
When you fold the things that make you, you, when you give in and say who I am isn't enough, I need to be more to impress this person or that person. when you take away parts of you for fear of offending the people around you, you are submitting to them, you are giving a piece of who you are to a garbage can so you can make someone else happy..is that really what you want.
You want to take your hand and put it in the garbage can to impress the people around you? you want to take your thoughts and throw them out because they dont fit the right box or what that person is telling you is the right box. Please dont throw yourself out. Dont sell yourself short, dont lose yourself to make people happy...cause I like yourself. I actually more then like it I love it..you being you makes life interesting.

dont submit to others opinions, dont lose yourself, dont lose your passion.