What I need was never there anyway

I am happy. I am a happier person most days than I have been. I have found that although this year has been busier than ever, I have had homework sprouting questions at me in my sleep and have had many stresses this year,  I am happy. And I can't help but think it is simply because I am become better at knowing myself, improving myself and not worrying as much about others opinions of myself as my own opinion. Be yourself, we've had this message drilled into our heads since we were little, but really, it's not till you discover this life truth yourself that it actually retains value. Happiness, being happy, making others happy, is there really anything else that we can ask of life? This path that I am heading down, I am proud to say, makes me happy. There is not much that I would want to change about myself right now, and those things that I am not 100 % on, well I'm working on those. I have grown simply by learning exactly what, "be yourself" means. I know who I am now, more so than I did a year ago, and I bet I will know more about myself tomorrow than I did today. And knowing myself, what makes me tick, what ticks me off and where my flaws are, I am just furthing pogressing down that path that leads me to the place where I belong.