To thine own self be true...

First of all, I want to say that all of us in our twenties need to read and/or purchase Suze Orman's "The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke." Check out her website at www.suzeorman.com.

But back to the topic...

I have a confession to make: Oprah is my hero. I love the show. I love her magazine. I want to be just like her...or even bigger! (I know...that's really big. She's a gajillionaire, but balls in, right? And yes...I just made up a word).

Yesterday, she had a couple on there where the husband had a sex change and went from Jim to Jen. The couple was still married, but were no longer intimate because the wife Deedi said that she was not a lesbian. And the couple had two young sons. I can only imagine how the wife and those boys feel.

But here's the thing...it's very easy to classify Jim/Jen as a freak. And he thought it wasn't right to want to be a woman because he suppressed that urge for TEN YEARS! But in the end, his true self won out. He could've lost everything, but in the end, he still became a woman.

Now that's a really extreme case of being true to yourself, but it underlines how important it is. I asked my Mom and Dad if it would be important enough to get a sex change to put your young sons through that. My mother said that if she had a penis, she would cut it off. My father said he would blow his brains out, stating that his suicide would be less traumatic than his sex change.

What do think? Would you be willing to risk it all to be true to yourself? Leave your comments and tell me what you think.