.�I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly
like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically
mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me:
my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my
dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes,
all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can
become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can
love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are
aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that
I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to
myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions
to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I
look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think
and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If
later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt
turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is
unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that
which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and
do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to
be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world
of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore,
I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.� |
