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Saturday, March 26, 2011

I AM ME

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me
Everything that comes out of me is authentically me
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 to myself - I own my fanatasies,
My dreams, my hopes, my fears - I own all 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 me in 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 for 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 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 


~Virginia Satir~ 1975

3 comments:

Sharon said...

Good Post, Tina!

Tina said...

Thanks Sharon. Somebody read this the other day at a meeting to us and i just thought it was great and thought i share it with everybody....we all can use a reminder once in a while about who we really are and that we are okay just the way we are.

Joan said...

I like it ... thanks for sharing :)
Glad to see the happy smile is still there! lol