You are just so incredible. I bet you don't believe me, so I am going to give you a list of reasons why you are so darn special. Just try to argue with me (I dare you).
36 Reasons Why You Are Awesome:
You have a body. It breathes and sweats and has a beating heart. You are a miracle.
You have feelings. Feelings help you to experience life in 3D. Feelings are awesome.
You can touch things and interact with your environment. You can plant a tree, pick up rubbish, and give and receive hugs.
You have an imagination. Imagination lets you live in places where you are not. How special!
You have people who care about you. Sometimes your feelings get in the way of realising this fact, but you do anyway. I care about you (honestly, I do).
You have access to the internet. What a great resource you have at your fingertips that can help you learn and interact.
You have choices. You can choose what to wear. You can choose to make a phone call, apply for a job, be kind, or lie down on the ground.
You can sleep. Sleep helps you remember things and takes you to other worlds. You can live a million lives in your dreams.
You can do nice things for people, like smile at them, cook them dinner, or offer to help them carry their groceries.
You can make people feel good about themselves. Compliments are nice.
You can make someone's day. You could do a nice thing for them and say something to them that makes them feel good about themselves (you may even have the ability to change someone's whole life!)
You can show yourself love and speak to yourself with kindness. This can make a big difference in how you feel and how you experience life.
You can read. You are reading this right now. You are so clever!
You can learn from your mistakes. This is important for awesomeness.
You can forgive people and choose not to draw attention to their mistakes or embarrassments.
You can educate yourself. You can take a course, ask questions, scroll on the internet, or read a book.
You can choose to not say things. Often this will help to ensure that you don't offend or upset people, which is awesome.
You can play games. Like Trivial Pursuit, noughts and crosses, thumb wars, hookey, peek-a-boo, or Barbies.
You can make food appear! By either cooking it, going to pick some up, making a phone call, or sometimes even just by expressing your desire to have it.
You can give people gifts, like time, or presents. People like gifts.
You can listen, either by using your ears or reading people's words. You can then make people feel heard and understood.
You can pick your nose, cry, burp, poo, wee, and/or vomit. This keeps you healthy and is amusing to small children. Your body is an incredible thing (that is a bit funny sometimes).
You can slow down or speed up your breathing. This can help to calm you down or pump you up.
You can get outside in nature. Being outside in nature is amazeballs. You should totally do it all the time.
You can be creative. You can think creatively, decorate a cake, draw a picture, choose your own adventure, fingerpaint, knit, fold your clothes in a different way, or make a dress out of an old towel. Creativity is awesome.
You can nourish your body with good food and water, sunshine, body lotions, rest, and all of the things it needs.
You can blink. This stops your eyeballs from drying out. That would be bad.
You can feel music. For real.
You can set mini goals for yourself and then feel awesome when you do them. Like, today I will get out of bed, or tomorrow I will get dressed. Or maybe this afternoon I will eat a piece of fruit, or put away the washing.
You can set big goals for yourself and work towards them. It is always good to have something you can work towards.
You can organise something that you can look forward to. Maybe a dinner with friends, a family holiday, a movie night, or a house cleaner.
You can wear hats, scarves, and clothes. They can make you feel different ways. They can make you smile, draw attention, or help you blend in.
You can get around. It's cool that we aren't stuck in the same place.
You have grown and your body is changing. We're lucky to be alive and getting older.
You have free will and can choose what consequences you are willing to accept.
You have a fight or flight response that helps to keep you safe.
We are so fearfully and wonderfully made. What an incredible mess of functions, feelings, and miracles we are!
I think you are awesome. Keep it up.
Love, Marley x
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