MY DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
FROM THE TYRANNIES IN MY LIFE
When in the Course of my life, it becomes necessary for me to dissolve the bands which hold me back from fully living my life and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws Of Nature entitles me, a decent respect to the opinions of myself requires that I declare the cause which impel me to fully establish my own power.
I hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by nature with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness - that to secure these rights, I must so decide, that these cannot be affringed by others or even myself - that whenever any form of interaction becomes destructive of these ends. it is my Right to alter or abolish it, and to institue new ways of interacting and determining, laing a foundation on such principles and organizaing my powers in such a way, as to them shall seem most likely to effect my Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that rules and ways of being long established should not be changed for light and transient caused; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to sffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which the set ways of being and running my life to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of damage and harm to myself, pursuing invariablybly the same Object evince a desire to reduce them under asolute Despotism, it is my righ, it is my duty, to throw off such shackles, and to provide new Guards for my future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of myself; and such is now the necesssity which constrains myself to alter the former systems and ways of operating of my old self.
My hisotry is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation of wiser paths, all having in direct object the establish of an absolute tyrrany over myself. To prove this, let these Facts be submitted to a candid world.
I have refused to choose that which is most wholesome and necessary for my
good.
I have refused to re-work those rules and ways of being of which rework is of
immediate and pressing importance and when re-worked I have utterly neglected to attend to them.
I have refused to create other Laws and rules for the accommodation of myself, giving up my rights and personal power, which refusal has me creating immeasurable harm to myself.
I have listened and given into others, asseding to them an authority or knowledge that I allow to overpower my own authority to choose with power and by gaining knowledge sufficient to decide well.
I have refused myself the power to make decisions that I have the right to make.
I have obstructed what is right through my ignorance and prejudices and through inaction and sloth.
I have quartered the enemy in my mind, giving it undue credibility and heedance.
I have taxed myself needlessly for false fears and resistances and inappropriate goals.
I have deprived myself of times for self care and of creating peace of mind out of ignorance and out of giving my power away to urgency and false importance and priorities of what I need to do in my life.
I have suspended my own good judgment and given in to its enemies - laziness of thought, assumng I have a lack of power, ignorance...
I haved forgotten or put aside that which I decided to be the most important in my life, as well as putting aside my commitments to that which I decided would work better.
I have plundered my energy and my body, for short term but unworthy gain or avoidance.
I have done that which is totally unworthy of myself.
I have constrained myself, from false fears and false limitations, depriving myself of that which I can create for my well-being and satisfaction in life.
I have held myself captive to the uncertainty of unclear thinking and unclear commitment
...
In every stage of my self oppression, I have petitioned for living a freer, more powerful happier life, yet I have denied that to myself. I have been tyrannical to myself and that is a way of being that I refuse to continue.
I have failed to assert myself or warn others not to violate my rights and my space, but I now commit to protecting such.
It is now necessary to fully assert my rights and to insist that they be honored.
I, therefore, do, in the Name, and by Authority of myself, solemnly publish and declare, That I am absolved from all allegiance to old unworkable ways and do herely dissolve all connection to them. And I do declare that I have full power to protect myself and assure my safety and security and to commit to doing that which I have a full right to do.
And for support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on my own power, pledge to myself and to the very parts of myself, my entire Fortune of energy and my sacred Honor.
