Remember Who you Are

Be or Remember.

When people say “Be who you are,” they usually mean Be Authentic, don’t pretend, don’t change just to please others. It’s great advice about self-expression and being Real. Letting your feelings, and truth show up in the world.

But there’s a Quiet problem

Many of us don’t actually know who we are beneath the habits, labels, fear, conditioning, roles, and expectations. So “Be who you are” can be quite confusing… or even impossible. One does not know where to even begin.

In Lion King, when Simba is frolicking, eating bugs singing ;Hakuna Matata” , he is ‘Being himself”. And then is told something..deeper by Mufasa.

“Remember who you are.”

He isn’t just being encouraged to simply express himself. He’s being called back to his Essence,  his lineage, his roots, his values, responsibility, his inner strength.

The truth he ran from when he chose exile over grief.

You can only be who you are, after you remember who you are.

That’s why I love Lion King so much, Something deep every time