Getting to Know Myself

I've spent the last few weeks trying really hard to get to know myself.  A difficult thing to do when you have spent most of your life trying to avoid knowing who you really are.  I've discovered that there are a lot of sides and facets to who I am.  Things that make up my being that I have no control over, or at least I thought I had no control over.  Realizing and accepting yourself for who you are, the good, the bad and the ugly is liberating.  Learning to appreciate that voice in your head as a type of protector rather than the jerk you have always seen it as.  Giving into the fact that you are not perfect, you will never be and no one expects you to be is refreshing.  Realizing that everyone is really too busy with their own shit, to be all that concerned about yours and if they are it's because their shit is a whole lot worse than yours.  We all have skeletons, we all have insecurities, and we all are human.  The best we can do is love and accept ourselves so that we can begin to love and accept others.