Be YOU

To all those needing a bit of Sunday love.

My Declaration of Self-Esteem
By Virginia Satir

I am me.
In all the world, there is no one else 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.

I own everything about me -- my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all its thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they may be -- anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth, and all the words that come out of 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 so doing I can love 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 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 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 have 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."

A great poem for people to reflect on when they feel like things or their life are not going how they want it too, start small, start with you and all else will follow. I told myself a along time ago, I refuse to be like anyone else. I will just be me, and I am happier and stronger for it. Its not to say you will not needs others to get by, its just to say stay true to you no matter what. Don't do for others what you wouldn't do for yourself.

Bless
XOXO
FF

My thoughts on the Zimmerman verdict of 'NOT GUILTY'

It breaks my heart that such a senseless act of violence is to be rewarded as such.  I'm outraged, disappointed, sickened!!!!!

For America being the greatest country it is tragic that their justice system is so one sided. They just demonstrated once more that justice is not blind, it has a color and sorry to say but it seems to work against the yellows, browns, blacks, etc. Lady Justice is this what you stand for? Are innocent men, women and children to pay for the incompetence of your system?

I am not saying that the system is all bad, like all things it works and it doesn't. Times have changed and you need to revisit the whole process, because it is skewed, and something needs to be done, if not people will take justice into their own hands. How great of a nation will you be then? Is this what you have become, turning a blind eye on innocent victims?

Trayvon wasn't just a victim, a son, a friend, he was also an American citizen. Is this what your citizens have to hope for? Who will protect them when you made the choice to stand behind rapist, killers, molesters, etc? Is this how you uphold the constitution?

Sorry to say but its tragic, disheartening.

Your're worried about outside threats when in fact you're your own greatest threat.#wakeup

XOXO
FF