Sunday, July 01, 2007

The One and Only One - Shyaam

"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 and the Best!!!!!!! Any Problems???????"

Author: http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=16658908371104037972

That's a nice view to hold of one self.  I am glad that he is my student and a dear friend.

3 comments:

SN said...

A thank U note would sound disgusting! In any case, Thank U for everything Sir. U have been a great inspiration in my life and Im sure there is nothing to be surprised about that!

With Warmest of Regards

Shyaam

memyself said...

sir..plz check d following link
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i-am-me-in-all-the-world-there-is-no-one-else/349826.html

it is a quotation by Virginia Satir

AnilNair said...

@ http://www.blogger.com/profile/06140661308499208755
Yeah! It is a verbatim reproduction.
Thanx 4 pointing it out. But then it was never claimed to be an original though me and Shyaam should have properly acknowledged it. Still, anyone who holds that view about oneself is worth knowing.