Be what you are

He who understands something and leaves it, but takes to something else, forgets the first without learning the second.

In a certain region lived a hermit. One day a traveler came to see him and gave him some fruit and they sat and ate and talked together.

The traveler admired the hermit’s language and wanted to learn to speak as the hermit, but the hermit warned him that if he wasn’t careful the same thing would happen to him as what happened to the crow.

When the crow saw a hen strutting as she walked, he wanted to walk like her and began to copy her step. But he did not succeed and forgot his former pace, continually stumbling.

In practising a language to which you are not accustomed , you may forget the one to which you are accustomed, and be considered foolish and without knowledge or intelligence for practising what neither you nor your parents before you were brought up to.

You are what you are. Do not try to ape others. You will look and sound hollow and silly. It doesnt mean that you should not try to change. But change takes time. One needs to learn, practice and perfect anything new before adopting it.

Let people accept you for what you are. You are quite good. Why spoil it?