 "When
one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long
at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for
us." She needs support, he needs support,you need support and I need support. There is absolutely NOTHING to be ashamed of when it comes to needing someone to be there for us when we need them! Be it a trusted relative, friend, clergy member, teacher, therapist or support hotline, EVERYBODY needs support at one time or another. <> I would like you now to please consider the fact that there are many different television shows that center around the idea of people being there for one another. The first one that comes into my mind is the popular hit sitcom called "FRIENDS." During the course of any give episode, we find the six friends -Monica (Courtney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Rachel Jennifer Aniston), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Schwimmer) essentially interacting with one another in a loving, caring, sensitive and humorous manner. Should
one the characters find themselves in a stressful situation (and what
sitcom
character DOESN'T?) HEAR
THE THEME
SONG! A
number of years ago, a friend of mine gave me a poster as a present and
now I would like to share its deeply profound (as well as truthful)
words
with you in the hope that it will now give to YOU what
it constantly gives to ME. MY
DECLARATION OF SELF-ESTEEM 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 to myself . I own my fantasies, my dreams, my
hopes
and my fears . I own all of my triumphs and successes, all of my
failures
and mistakes. BECAUSE I own all of me, I can become intimately
acquainted
with me. By DOING so, I can love me, be friendly with me in all
of
my parts. I know there are aspects of me 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 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 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, feel, hear, 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!!!
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before you can even utter the word "FRIENDS" at
least one out of the six will have already attempted to do whatever
she/he
can possibly do in order to alleviate whoever is in trouble. Isn't that
GREAT?!
I
LOVE IT! 