just be yourself

I hear that a lot. "just be yourself" but then i wonder, who is that? For a long time i let my family think for me. So i always tend to look to others to form my opinions...even opinions about myself. But lately i have been realizing, 'hey i want to think for myself' So it is hard not to look to people for an opinion about myself. i have grown into being more and more comfortable in my own skin. I have this bad habit though of comparing myself to everyone. I say to myself, 'if only i was like them' or 'dang, why am i not like that'. i can be hard on myself. But i am working on breaking that habit...or just working on offering that habit up to God. Because all i can hear when i start to compare myself is "You don't have to be anyone else". That is kind of my theme this semester. I am learning to trust that when God made me, He made me the way i am for a reason. its nice to feel this weight of needing to be something else lift off of me...God is gooood