Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "i keep trying to be someone i don't want to be. so why do i keep trying?"

• If someone wants to do something and it isn't hurting you... DON'T BE A FUCKING DICK
• Do you know what it is like to be alone among so many?
• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• Making a fool of myself must be a hobby, I do it so frequently
• in a world where the bar keeps seeming to be lower, where stupidity has got a foothold, there is room for excellence and uncompromising vision
• i assume it is considered odd to be so fond of someone based on text alone
• So you want to be an air traffic controller
• stop trying so hard, and just do. you'll do better.
• I'm trying to see little old ladies as versions of my mom; it helps me be a better person
• Trying to be friends
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• So you want to be a star?
• Don't trust Elves; they may want to be your friends
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• I know I'm not very good at this. I don't want to be better.
• So you want to be a waitress
• do you want to understand? or do you want to be right?
• Do you really want Alexa to be hearing this
• To me he is a daisy and I keep trying to count his petals
• So You Want to Be a Wizard
• I Do Not Want To Be One Of Those People
• I don't want to be here when you don't call.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• trying to be a feminist
• I don't always want you to be nice
• I don't want to be successful
• I always sound Irish when I'm trying to be charming
• So you want to be a telephone engineer
• So you want to be an editor (document)
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• I am built to ignore hard truths and keep dreaming. That's what it is to be me.
• If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution
• We pander to each other because we love each other so much and we'd do anything to keep each other and it's made us sensitive and it's fucking killing us all.
• Everyone is just trying to be farther meta
• i'm trying not to be a prisoner of time
• lost, or trying to be
• You are looking for someone who does not want to be found. Even if you find them it will not be a success.
• Don't want sex, be sexual
• Trying to keep up with technology, when the quiet full moon is momentarily more than enough
• So you want to be a DJ?
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• trying to complete some archaic sub-quest, only to be drawn into some stupid battle every five steps
• Don't want to be lonely no more
• I don't want to be alone
• So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• So, you want to be a philosopher
• So you want to be evil
• We wanted to be together, so we worked it out.
• Trying to be weird is not enough
• Trying desperately to be cool
• So you want to be a composer
• You do realise that this is going to be our lives for the next ten years?
• When the aliens attack my workplace, I'm going to be so damn READY
• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
• Information wants to be free
• so that all her children will be adventurers in light
• No one wants to be a nihilist
• To do is to be
• Don't Be Evil
• Things to consider if you think someone might be dead
• I want to be the air around you.
• Mother, did it need to be so high?
• so be it
• I Want to be a Hulkamaniac
• she can scream so loud you'll be looking for your ears on the floor
• Be the change you want to see in the world
• The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• the nodeshell that didn't want to be rescued
• I wanted to be
• Forget what you think you know about the opposite sex
• Don't be seduced by the taco bar
• I'm gonna be sad and then I want you to make me laugh
• I am blind when I want to be
• Your first writeup will be nuked: Don't give up
• I just want to be friends
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
• Want to be shot in the US or beaten in the UK?
• Don't be an IM phantom
• Billy, Don't Be a Hero
• Don't worry, Be Happy!
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• I don't see Heinlein writing books proposing that only farmers should be allowed to vote
• Don't be a monkey. Let go of the banana.
• twelve ways to do and be is enough for cats
• I want the real you - not this superficial being you pretend to be
• I want to be woken by you climbing through my window
• "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" rule
• You do not have a right to not be offended
• On what it is like to be so crazy you can't sleep
• How to be strong for her, when all you want is to depend on her
• I don't plan to be dismembered in the next three months
• How can something so incredibly beautiful be so incredibly wrong?
• I want to be a whale when I grow up. Or a squid.
• If I could be someone
• To all the cold people who want to be warm again
• Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
• Why you don't deserve to be a professor
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• He didn't want to be Gary anymore
• I want to be somewhere between two points of nowhere
• I don't lose the irony that I believe my reflection to be a stranger
• If a given feature can't be found in a Freeware application, you don't need it
• I want to be caught
• It's so hard to be unfashionable
• Act as if you are in a dream; be daring and don't apologize
• This will be the hardest thing you ever do
• When I grow up, I want to be a pretzelman
• got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see
• All I ever wanted to be
• Your first relationship will be nuked: Don't give up
• Who Wants to be the Next US President?!
• i want to be a dj
• What the American people want politics to be
• All the things she had at one point wanted to be
• You're not going to be happy until you put someone's eye out
• do not look upon her; you shall be blinded
• I just want to be a drummer
• I wanted nothing more than for the ocean to be calm and still
• Be careful and don't fall down
• Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.
• This would be so dirty if we weren't all professionals
• So You Wanna Be A Lawyer
• Is it as it is to do or is it as it is to be?
• Information wants to be paid
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• You're too young to be so old
• Many girls want to be carnal with me because I am such a premium dancer.
• This program cannot be run in DOS mode
• All you have to do is listen, and be ready.
• Notes on What's What and on What it Might be Reasonable to do about Whats What
• Someday, someone will be here unearthing my bones
• I can't be a scientist because I don't believe in God.
• What I want to be when I grow up
• Information wants to be deleted
• It feels so fine to be a fish today
• Information doesn't want to be anything
• You don't have to be a vegetarian to like vegetarian food
• Don't be smart too, I couldn't stand it
• Don't be sexy. I said stop that.
• This song is meant to be played so loudly it liquefies your thoughts as you drive at night through abandoned neon dinosaur bones
• What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
• So mote it be
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Game at McDonald's
• I'm dreaming it so it must be true
• I want to be alone until God rips a rib out of my chest and makes me a woman
• I want it to be more like the things I write
• You could be so delicious
• I Want to Be Inside You
• That's what I want to be too, frankly
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• Don't be a smartass and expect to be taken seriously
• Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
• Sometimes I want to be an object of desire
• Social contract theory = Treat people the way you want to be treated
• I want to be a sherpa when I grow up
• Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
• Don't be afraid, you've just got your eyes closed
• When I grow up (I want to be an old woman)
• I beg of you, cradle my head so that I might be with you forever
• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
• Want to be a lawyer?
• don't be absurd (user)
• I saw it on the Internet so it MUST be true!
• You give me wings. Don't be surprised if I fly.
• I want to be a muse
• Do not be surprised, I have always been your canvas, Argenis.
• Ah, if you should turn out to be a fairy I don't think I'd put you in a jar
• Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
• Will the Atomic Bomb Ever Be Perfected, and If So, What Becomes of Robert Heinlein?
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• don't be a fool, it's nineteen-ninety-five, the girls are just friends
• Don't be sad, I'll make you happy
• all I want to be is holding your hand
• Don't be sad
• The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God

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