“Live With Your- Truly-Self” ???

Jogging through my memory, I remember that back then, there was a time when people blabbed about “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, along with many other notorious self-helps, bragging about how to step up pursuing the ultimate successes.

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There was another time witnessing the very trend of “live the way you are”, which vehemently called for “mask-offs”, thus doing away with every flowery hypocrisy. They, after all, must have been worn out by inherently entangled dogmas, from steps-before-articulating-everything to be-wary-of-your-fking-tone-here.

Not until recently was such a trend fiercely criticized. People this time stated that it was any less of a defense for the haphazard, lethargic and sophomoric lifestyle. Worse still, they even voiced that “living the way you are” should never urge someone to get under others’ skin, nor should they louse themselves up to fit in which.

As a rule, once buying into anything, we ourselves are predestined ending up awfully extreme. Even when we hurt for harmony, that harmony has already born with it extremism.

Thus, given their extreme nature, every piece of self-help advice or “live with your-truly-self”…