The one thing i can say for myself at this point is that it's good to be yourself, and never give in to whatever they tell you to be.

Actually, no.. There's more to it than that. Something words can't grasp. I let that phrase go many, many times in my one ear and out the other, before I actually caught myself saying it and couldn't believe it was exactly what had been harped at me all this time. It's more of a feeling, a terrific, huge, pure feeling. The phrase just accompanies it. Perhaps you'll find the same irony in it, if you get to where I was. If you do, remember me and my stories, me and my smiles.