Prateek Mutha

"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 around
me. I own me, and therefore, I can
engineer me. I am me, and I am
Okay."