Becoming Who I Am

I completely agree with Parker Palmer when he says that becoming who you are is more about reinforcing the way God made you. However, I also believe that it is very important to become a "better you" because we have to always try to be the best possible versions of ourselves. Not everyone experiences a concrete vocation for the directions of our lives. It can be hard to find our path when there isn't an external force steering us in a certain direction. Society is an important factor, I believe, in our vocation because it can be very accepting of mistakes, as long as we learn from them. The process of trial and error would be a lot more difficult if we lived in a harsher society. Like Palmer says, it can be harder to accept the person we truly are than to pretend to be someone we're not. Being someone you're not only puts a mask over God's vision of us. We have to be true to who we are. Being yourself is the greatest vocation a person can receive.