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.........