which is easier for you: to pretend you are somebody else or being yourself??

Hi Cathya, it's easier to be myself than pretend to be someone else. I have to remember the lies and stories I told, that I behave accordingly. Being myself, I will not have to go through this, and I believe I'm happier, more relaxed than living behind lies.

it is easier for me to be myself.I don't like pretending to be somebody I am not.it's a total waste of time and effort for me.I am happy with who I am,and I am comfortable with it.I'd rather be true to myself rather than pretend to be someone else in order to get someone interested in me.

being my self is so muh better because then i dont have to work so hard to be someone else and i dont have to remember how i am i cant always be different with the same person. its like telling a lie sooner or later you cant remember what you said to one person and the other. SO JUST beig my self makes me happy i had to be myself or else after being married i would have gotten tired of staying that person i was trying to be and he would have married the person i was preteding to be and not me

I thought most of us will choose to be ourselves.I think it will take us more easy.But sometimes we had to pretend somebody else.For exaple ,we should to pretend a mother ,wife or daughter in the family. However ,it's diddicult to be a man,as well, it's difficult to behave.

Hmm, most of the time I am myself but with a few of my friends I have to pretend to be someone I'm not. It gets tiring but there is no way I can tell them to just shut up or something because I hate confrontation and I hate fighting even more. I like peace and will do what I can to keep it, but if it is something around my job I will completely be myself. Lies or being fake is no way to be around the people you work with or for.

Cathya, for me it's really hard to pretend to be someone else. I would always prefer to be myself as I can't to the pretending. But here you have given a valid reason, when your life turn you up and down and when EVERYTHING goes the wrong way, you are so broken that you can't be the usual yourself any more, sometimes you pretend to be normal and deceive yourself that things are not that bad and sometimes you just lose yourself.. Even you could not recognize yourself. You behave odd and differently because you are not that stable to judge anything including yourself and the situation. But as far as I am sane and I do have a choice I would always prefer to be myself, coz that's what I am best at! :-)