Day 50- I Am Me.

Today I was given a poem that I thought I would share with everyone. It's about loving who we are and accepting all of ourselves; the good, the bad, and everything in between. It's going to be the type of poem that different days different parts will stand out and will connect more. So, here it is. I hope you like it.

I Am Me.

By Virginia Satir

In all the world, there is no one exactly like me.

There are persons who have some parts like me,

but no one adds up exactly like me.

Therefore, everything that comes out of me

is authentically mine because I alone choose it.

I own everything about me

my body including everything it does;

my mind including all its thoughts and ideas;

my eyes including the images all they behold; 

my feelings whatever they may be...

anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement

my mouth and all the words that come out it

polite, sweet or rough,

correct or incorrect;

my voice loud or soft.

And all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, 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 doing so I can love me and be friendly with me in all parts.

I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interest.

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 me.

This is authentic and represents where I am in that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I

thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting.

I can discard that which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting.

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 ok. 

Day 50- Thing I Love to Do.........Watching the Ellen show.