Being yourself.....or did you mean being myself??

I always thought that just what do they mean by "being yourself".

Now, I have started coming closer to the definition or I feel, I can even claim to have understood the statement; I say it's the state when one is not conscious that whether he/she's accepted by the 'humans' around. This acceptance can be measured in two ways:
a. acceptance for your looks, your manners, your language. OR
b. acceptance for your thought-processes, your ideas.

Now, in general, whenever I have heard that "I am being myself and I don't care about what others say", I, upon probing deeper, have acknowledged that they are actually referring to the first type of measurement. They still feel a maddening desire to be accepted about their ideas, now that's why, perhaps, there's so much of lack of demotivation amongst the masses!!

Now, just what is it one can do to be accepted in the other way too, the answer is, the same old one 'be yourself'. Let me now try to define it a little further...
Being yourself -- it's the integrity of one's character, the integrity of accepting yourself even if you are discarded by a millions of 'humans'. When your mental calm and serenity doesn't disappear the moment there's a raised eye-brow in the crowd directly hinting about your whereabouts. Now, this requires heaps of self-confidence....aahhhh, another complicated term!!!

This is just the end to the beginning to my food for thought.........

face in the society

I am told about it, have been asked to gulp it down my throat too so much so that it's suffocated me. I fail to understand that what is it so much about the image-building thing that has to be taken care of in this society. I asked this friend about it, he said, "we are living in a society, we better take care, although I don't care but one should care, so I care about it". So, I say to myself, "do you really want to care what people say about your gestures, your thought-processes, do you really need an affirmation to approve yourself" -- I hear a silent 'no' and somewhere this silence takes a violent form and screams out a 'no' for the simple reason that I don't care that what others do, what they think about their own selves, so why do I care about what they say. So, here I am, trying to clear myself out of my own confused, young mind that 'listen, I accept you the way you are, don't care about others, keep the chin-up and let the confidence keep running high"!!!!!