What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
-Carl Rogers
The following was written in answer to a 15-year old 's question, "How can I prepare myself for a fulfilling life?"
I am me.
In all the world, there is
no one else exactly like me. There are people who have some parts like
me but no one ends up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes
out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.
I own everything about me
- my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all my
thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold;
my feelings, whatever they might be- anger, joy, frustration, love,
disappointment, excitement; my mouth and all the words that come out of
it - polite, sweet and rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud and
soft; all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.
I own my , 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 ultimately acquainted with me. by so doing, I can live me
and be friendly with me in all my parts. I can then make it possible
for all of me to work in my best interests.
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 the solutions to the puzzles and look for the 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 a time is me. This is authentic and represents where I am at 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, 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
 
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