The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest thing you can ever do is being yourself in a world where everyone expects you to be someone else.
One of the biggest challenge a lot of people face in life has been how to be themselves. Most people look at themselves not fit enough to be in a particular place or position, they lack self esteem. Some finds it very hard when it comes to being outspoken,why because they believe they can't contribute to anything, that their opinion can never be of any use, so they decide to stay timid and lock themselves inside their shelves.

Because of these, they try to act like other people, they imitate people's life, the way the person speaks, act, sometimes they even try to walk like the person. I've seen this mostly in the entertainment industry, especially the music industry. An artist will come into the scene trying to sound like another artist, or make his or her name looks similar.

The fact remains, sounding like another artist will only make the artist more popular with your own effort while you still remain where you were. If i hear a song and it sounds like Wizkid, the first thing that comes to my mind is ''wow'' this is another great one by Wizkid. But if you were being yourself and original, i would be wondering who sang this great song because the voice will be new to my ear. What i'll do is go through the net and search for the artist name and from there i'll get to discover you.

You can never be great or a role model trying to be someone else, they always have to be something new, something spectacular, something different, something that the world has not seen or heard before, that's what makes you a legend. We have so many raggae artist in the world but why is Bob marley on every raggae list. Even after been dead for years still remains the king of raggae. Micheal Jackson is the king of pop why?. These people gave the world something unique and different, originality is what they were made of. That's why they are legends.

Coming to steemit, i've meet a lot of great people here like @surpassinggoogle, @maryfavor @stellabelle @sweetssj, and most of them introduced to me by friends, sometimes you go to search for this names maybe to follow them and read their articles. When you search these names you see a lot of this names, at times you get confuse and add the wrong person. And i wonder, why would you try to bear another person's name?. Why don't you believe in yourself, build yourself the way these people did?. If these people were trying to be someone else like you do. they won't make it that far for you to admire and want to be like them.

Many people on earth are other people. Making their thoughts someone else’s opinions, then their lives a mimicry, and their passions a quotation.
Try being a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. Always be yourself because everyone else is already taken.

Find out who you are today and do it on purpose.