English Original
The following was written in answer to a 15-year-old girl's question, "How can I prepare myself for a fulfilling life?"
I am me.
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are people who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone choose it.
I own everything about me -- my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all my thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they might be -- anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth and all the words that come out of it -- polite, sweet and rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud and soft; all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me in all my parts. I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.
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 the 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 me. This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time.
When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting. I can discard that which is unfitting and keep that which proved fitting, 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, 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.
中文翻译
以下文字是为回答一位15岁女孩的问题而写：“我该如何为自己准备一个充实的人生？”
我就是我。
在这个世界上，没有一个人和我一模一样。有些人可能在某些方面像我，但没有一个人能完全像我一样。因此，从我身上产生的一切都真实地属于我，因为只有我选择了它。
我拥有关于我的一切——我的身体，包括它所做的每一件事；我的思想，包括我所有的想法和观念；我的眼睛，包括它们所看见的一切景象；我的感受，无论它们是什么——愤怒、喜悦、沮丧、爱、失望、兴奋；我的嘴巴和从中说出的所有话语——礼貌的、甜美的、粗鲁的、正确的或不正确的；我的声音，响亮或轻柔；我所有的行为，无论是对他人还是对自己。
我拥有我的幻想、我的梦想、我的希望、我的恐惧。
我拥有我所有的胜利与成功，我所有的失败与错误。
因为我拥有全部的我，所以我能够深入了解我的每一个部分。我能够爱我自己，并与我的每一个部分友好相处。然后，我就能让全部的我为我的最佳利益而运作。
我知道我身上有些方面让我困惑，也有些方面我尚未了解。但只要我对自己友好且充满爱意，我就能勇敢地、满怀希望地寻找困惑的答案，并找到更多了解自己的方法。
无论我的外表和声音如何，无论我在特定时刻说什么、做什么、想什么、感受什么，那就是我。这是真实的，代表了我那一刻的状态。
当我事后回顾我的外表、声音、言行、思想和感受时，有些部分可能被证明是不合适的。我可以摒弃那些不合适的部分，保留那些被证明合适的部分，并为摒弃的部分创造新的东西。
我能看、能听、能感受、能思考、能说、能做。我拥有生存的工具，与他人亲近的工具，创造价值的工具，以及理解并梳理我之外的人和事的世界秩序的工具。
我拥有我自己，因此我可以塑造我自己。我就是我，我很好。