I AM ME!

Dear all,

I have been gone a year and I have returned (I am sure) smarter, wiser, saner and far more accepting of myself in many ways. The past year has been an awesome journey. I quit my job, survived a break up, moved cities, found a new job, tried that for 6 months where I met fantastic people and made friends for life but didnt quite like the work, so decided to cut my losses, found an even better work place (mashalah!) and a fantastic opportunity for my career, got reacquainted with Mumbai, met some awesome new people and caught up with old ones, learnt so much about myself and found out that self-love is a fab thing and everyone should practice it...and now a year later am sitting here on my beautiful window ledge overlooking the Sea Link and writing this tale.

I am happily content! :)

As I close this entry...am going to leave you with some beautiful words that I came across today...hope these words inspire you as they have me.

“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.” 

- Denis2005 Virginia Satir quotes (American Psychologist and Educator, 1916-1988)