Who is the real you?

I used to be so shy from as young as I can remember up until I was in my early twenties. I used to be really self-conscious and worry about what other people thought. I used to think, “If only I was as confident as so-and-so”. A real fear gripped me. I prayed for that fear to go for years! Anyway, I was at kindy and just started talking to one of the mum’s there that I’ve never met before and I wasn’t nervous or worried or anything. I actually loved doing it, surprisingly enough! I then realised, while I was driving home that I wasn’t self-conscious anymore. I just started thanking God that that fear was gone and saying to Him, “That’s definitely You doing that God, coz that’s not me or my personality at all!” He then said back, “That IS the real you, that IS the person I created you to be, that IS your real nature.” Then it hit me! I can’t believe that for so many years I’ve lived thinking that that self-consciousness and me being shy was the real me! How many times I’ve used that excuse! That is NOT the real me! Now that I have kids, I’ve been continually saying over their lives that they are Kingdom Influencers and all the great powerful things that God says about them. I really try and watch what I say to them too now. They are the future generation. I want them to be all that I never was. So many of us have grown up with such deception about ourselves for so many years, that we just think it’s our ‘personality’ when it’s totally opposite of what God says about us. Who is the real you?