Why can't we just be?

If anybody asked you if you thought greatness was in you, you'd probably say yes.You might mumble the answer a lil' if you're judging yourself based on your external success -'These don't really look like the shoes of a great person...'

I found myself thinking one day, what exactly stops us from being the best version of ourselves that we could ever be? I mean, besides money, lack of resources, laziness, excuses, money? What's holding you back from just being your best self?

You know what you want. You could describe at any moment in time how an ideal you would be...and i bet it's not who you are right now. Will there ever be a moment in time when we'll be able to say, "I'm at my best right now. This is the best me."

Or are our lives on earth going to be a continual pursuit of a distant perfection that keeps slipping away the closer we think we're getting to it? 

I think we might have got the whole definition of perfection wrong. Or maybe perfection was never the goal we were supposed to aim at. 

Every new year, nomatter how we scoff at all the jokes mocking new year resolutions and the whole 'new you' cliche, most of us actually do subconsciously decide to work on being 'new'. A lot of the time spent on social media, on watching stuff, on games... is time spent avoiding dealing with ourselves. 'You can't conquer what you won't confront' tho.

So, i think the reason why we can't 'just be' is because we choose not to be. Be brave, be bold, be hardworking. Be rich?

I've changed my definition of success to a state of inner affirmation you get after giving the best of your ability to any given task. If i gave my best, then i was successful;  in spite of the outcome. That way, I can truly just be whatever I want to be without fear of failing at it.