Being me.

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"You helped me stop being me because there is nothing worse than just being me Everyday."

Please check.
 

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Everyday should be every day. I have to confess that it strikes me as pretty meaningless, though I have read worse.
 

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Every and day merge into everyday only when the word is an adjective. An everyday dress, for example.
 

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Every and day merge into everyday only when the word is an adjective. An everyday dress, for example.

Is my sentence OK? Apart from every day.
 

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It's grammatically correct albeit meaningless.
 

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It's grammatically correct albeit meaningless.

Is there any other way to make it meaningful? I mean the correct way to write it.
 

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What is your intended meaning of 'being me'?
 

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"You helped me stop being me because there is nothing worse than just being me Everyday."

I guess he means this:
You have helped me to improve and be a better person than what I was.
 

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And what reason were you referring to with "because"?
 

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You helped me change myself; there was no one worse than me.
 

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This must have come from someone with inferiority complex.

I heard this "being me" thing in the movie "Kung Fu Panda." Was that incorrect?
 

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That's a very sad thing to feel.
You might wish to find a therapist to help you with this.

Someone can't make you "not you." They could make you a better version of yourself, perhaps.
 

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Your sentence is now grammatically correct as emsr2d2 has already stated but it is very hard to understand the message; it sounds like a sentence written by James Joyce.:)

Barb D explained it very well!
 

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Your sentence is now grammatically correct as emsr2d2 has already stated but it is very hard to understand the message; it sounds like a sentence written by James Joyce.:)

Barb D explained it very well!

Does it make sense now? But it can't be used in conversation, right?
 
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