“I am Me. and everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me 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 know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know ; but I 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 me 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 sens