Unique, Special, and Acceptable, Just as I am.

Today,
I will celebrate the joy of
being myself.

My self image
is a collage
made up of an
odd assortment of individuals. 
Everyone I have ever wanted to be lives there,
along with everyone I have never been afraid of being. 
Hero and bum, saint and sinner,
all take their turns in dominating both how I see myself and how I act.

My inner child
who is the heart of my true self
is neither a hero nor a bum. 
Each extreme arises from shame. 
The hero drives me to be more than I really am to prove my acceptability and my worth. 
The bum is merely a twisted product of the critical voices from my childhood,
and, not a true reflection of me at all.

Today I will take another step on my journey toward wholeness
by erasing
both the heroes and the bums from my self image.  

I am a human being ---
nothing more,
nothing less.

Today I will celebrate
the joy of being myself,
unique, special and acceptable
just as I am.