IS ME-SHEHU KEHINDE
May. 23rd 08:14 AM 2010
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!!!