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- MARIA ELIZEAH A. MAGLUCOT and I am Okay.