I AM ME

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

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.