#512: Selfie (Friday, October 21)

Our culture is so focused on self - taking the right selfie; posting one's every move, thought and emotion online. Most of what we do these days seems to scream, "Look at me! Look at me! Look how cool my life is."

Yet, under it all, most people have a fear of the real selfie. The one where you expose the good, bad and ugly truths about yourself and confront them. Most people aren't willing (or brave enough) to peel back the exterior and look behind the pictures with awesome makeup and perfect hair to see who they really are.

Who are you when you're alone and no one's watching? Are you comfortable with that person and showing him/her to others? Do those closest to you know who you are? (And I mean really know who you are; not the PR version.) Can you acknowledge your flaws and failures with equal pomp and circumstance as you do your triumphs and successes?

Self exploration is the real frontier.