Just Be Yourself Theme

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The story "Just Be Yourself" contains the most important rite of passage because it teaches you to be yourself, do what you like, and find who you are. Being yourself will impact how people will notice you, talk to you, and act around you. Doing what you like will give you the opportunity to do many different things and apply for different jobs that are of you interest instead of working at a job you do not like. Finding who you are will help you get a successful career and have an enjoyable life.
In the story, the narrator talks to himself about just being yourself and that he's are the only one who can do that for you. The teen version of the narrator joined about 18 different school clubs. Most of the clubs were things the teen narrator
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The narrator told his teen self that when you're able to spend all day doing what you love, it's the most amazing feeling in the world. We can infer that the his teen self took his present self's advice and stopped doing things he didn't like, and begin to do things he enjoyed doing. The narrator is glad that his teen self will be able to do the things he likes and to not do anything he doesn't like. This would also tie in with being yourself.
The last section I read explained to the teenager to find who you are. The narrator told his past self to always be himself. He used a quote from E.E. Cummings to explain the teenager to be himself. The quote said "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. The narrator states that life isn't about finding the on thing your good at and never doing anything else, it's about exploring yourself and finding who you really are.
To sum it all up, the three reasons this story contains the most important rite of passage is because it teaches you how to be yourself, do what you like, and find who you are. Teaching yourself how to be yourself is important because it'll impact how you are noticed by other people, doing what you like will give you the opportunity to do many different things, and finding who you are will give you a successful

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