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I am.
I am aware. I live and grow. I breathe the air that nourishes my life and I feel the blood that pulses through my veins. I am constantly moving and evolving.
I think. I know that I exist. I continue to learn and the knowledge that gives me a better understanding of all that is around me never ceases to expand in my mind.
I am advantaged. I came into being under circumstances that allow me a higher chance of survival and prosperity if I use them shrewdly.
I am disadvantaged. I came into being with circumstances that create challenges and potentially impair my chances of survival and prosperity. But, these challenges give me a better reason to pursue a life of happiness by overcoming them and adding another victory to my legacy to come.
I love. I know what it is to care and to be cared for, and the strength that companionship builds.
I hurt. I know what it is to feel pain, and I use my experience in pain to teach me rather than to torture me.
I contemplate. I search for meaning to the universe and I try to create a sense of direction and purpose to my own life as a result. I have both doubted and considered the existence of an intelligent entity of creation and the higher powers at work that are invisible to my eyes. I have pondered the idea of my own spirit and what purpose such a design could serve, both to myself and a possible Creator.
I create. I use my mind and hands together to create and manipulate things necessary to my survival and to also express myself to the world.
I take from the traditions before my time and I use them as foundations in the building of my own morality. My own moral value system that I make through experience and introspective thought gives me something to which I can abide so that I may feel complete and content with myself. As such, I am ambitious in seeking a consistent state of being that is self-reliant.
I maintain. I will preserve my life and the lives of my loved ones by whatever means I deem necessary. I take the responsibility to provide the necessities for myself and those in my care by whatever means are reasonable. I recognize both my own right to be and other life-forms' rights to be. But, I will not hesitate to defend the life of my own or my loved ones if threatened.
I want. I desire for my life to end with more to my name than I had when my life began. I always want to do more for myself and others and I never settle for less than I am worth.
I have a right to be. I am part of this universe no matter what and I shall continue to prove my right to exist. I would not wish to have lived any other life, nor lived in any other time or place. I shall prove to the history to come that I did exist and that I accomplished a good life of happiness in my own time.
I am.
What I look for in others is no less
than what I seek to nourish in myself -
the strength to hold firm under any stress,
to be true through the most difficult test,
to bravely face whatever my fate brings,
to give generously to all my guests,
to strive to control my will in all things,
to be honest to all despite the cost,
to rely on myself first and foremost,
to give dedication to any work,
to have a reputation worth a boast,
to be strong in these and honor my gods
and be someone others would like to know
as I strive to make my ancestors proud -
all of this I seek in myself to grow.
Never Violate a woman, Nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. Never back away from an enemy. Either fight or surrender. It is not enough to say I will not be evil. Evil must be fought wherever it is found.
My name is not my own,
It is borrowed from my ancestors,
I must return it unstained.
My honor is not my own,
It is loaned from my decedents,
I must give it to them unbroken.
My blood is not my own,
it is a gift to generations yet unborn,
I should carry it with responsibility.
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