Living authentically has benefits. I wish more people knew of how much better and less complicated life can be if you just live authentically.
Be who you are. Know who you are and what principles and values you want to live by. Try to align your actions with your principles. If you act in ways that you feel are right then you can never be wrong.
People should make decisions based on their values. Usually you do not go wrong when living by your moral code. You may make an error based on wrong information or knowing only part of the information or something else but if that happens you can apologize and move on.
Someone hurt by someone else can grant forgiveness so they are not enslaved by negative feelings. It only hurts you if you hold onto anger from a long-ago incident. Anger and resentment also need to stay isolated to those who were involved. It makes no common sense to start being angry with a group of people who had no involvement with the issue that you are mad about.
Over and over I have seen two people have a fight and then one person transfers their anger to another whole group of people who were never involved with the original incident. It is completely nonsensical. Such people seem to chunk people into groups. They then say "you are with them or you are with me". They make people pick sides. They call neutral people who try to interact with both groups wafflers or fence straddlers, but the thing is those neutral people do NOT have to pick sides! They are just not involved!
I act the same no matter who I am with. I am me and I let it all hang out. I am honest and truthful. If people are to judge me I want them to base it on what they know of me. I don't dump all my personal information on everyone I meet. I share a lot more on this blog to strangers than I reveal to new people I meet. If asked questions by new people I meet I answer them honestly. If I am probed with questions I answer them with certain healthy boundaries.
It is so much easier to live when a person chooses not to lie. I can't imagine how complicated life would be if I told different stories to different people and made things up. I have enough going on in my real life to make up events and fabricate stories.
I have always tried to teach my kids to be their unique selves and to live authentically. Over the years many adults have praised me saying my kids are unique people who are sincere people who are comfortable being who they are, and do not put on pretenses or erect walls for self-protection. The thing is that when my kids act like who they really are, and with their open attitude, others like being around them and they gravitate toward them.
Living authentically benefits individuals and everyone around them. I know that from experience. Trust me on it. Give it a try if you are not already living authentically.