{"id":10947,"date":"2010-05-08T18:44:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2010-05-08T18:44:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:44:49","slug":"i-am-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2010\/05\/i-am-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Satir<\/a> came to write this poem when she was working with an angry fifteen-year-old girl who had a lot of questions about herself and what life meant.<\/p>\n

I am me.
\nIn all the world, there is no one exactly like me.
\nThere are persons who have some parts like me,
\nbut no one adds up exactly like me.<\/p>\n

Therefore, everything that comes out of me
\nis authentically mine because I alone choose it.
\nI own everything about me
\nmy body<\/strong> including everything it does;
\nmy mind<\/strong> including all its thoughts and ideas;
\nmy eyes<\/strong> including the images of all they behold;
\nmy feelings<\/strong> whatever they may be…
\nanger,
\njoy,
\nfrustration,
\nlove,
\ndisappointment,
\nexcitement
\nmy mouth<\/strong> and all the words that come out of it
\npolite,
\nsweet or rough,
\ncorrect or incorrect;
\nmy voice<\/strong> loud or soft.
\nAnd all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.<\/p>\n

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
\nI own all my triumphs and successes,
\nall my failures and mistakes.
\nBecause I own all of me I can become intimately acquainted with me.
\nBy doing so I can love me and be friendly with me in all parts.
\nI can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.<\/p>\n

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
\nand other aspects that I do not know.
\nBut as long as I am friendly and loving to myself,
\nI can courageously and hopefully, look for solutions to the puzzles
\nand for ways to find out more about me. <\/p>\n

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think
\nand feel at a given moment in time is me.
\nThis is authentic and represents where I am in that moment in time.
\nWhen I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I
\nthought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting.
\nI can discard that which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting,
\nAnd invent something new for that which I discarded.<\/p>\n

I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do.
\nI have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive,
\nand to make sense and order out of the world of people
\nand things outside of me.
\nI own me, and therefore I can engineer me.<\/p>\n

I am me and I am okay.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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