Being Real

Being real means being who you are rather than trying to be who you are not for the sake of pleasing someone else. It is being comfortable enough in your own skin that you don’t have to play games, pretend, manage an image, etc. You can be you, warts and all.

One aspect of reality is that “I am who I am.” (I think Popeye the Sailor Man first coined a similar phrase.) I’m 5’9, weigh 155 lbs and am going bald. I would have loved to be 6’5, weighed 210 and played quarterback in the NFL. That’s not...