You have permission to live a life worth living.

You have permission to love who you love

You have permission to be transgender, non-binary, and whoever you feel as though you are.

You have permission to worship the deity of your choice

You have the right to healthcare and free education for minors and college students

You have permission to not be a statistic and survive out of poverty.

You have permission to be educated

You have to right to run for political office, making your voice heard

You have the right to respect, dignity, integrity, humility, and everything good from your fellow neighbors

You have the right to grow

You have permission to feel whatever emotions you are feeling, and they are all valid

You have permission to live with dignity as a chronically ill person, mentally ill, and physically limited, with access to services to give you a life worth living.

You have permission to be respected.

You have permission to grieve when a life is stolen, when you are hurting; your grief is valid and should be met with empathy.

You have the right to have safe housing

You have permission to raise powerful, world-changing, and history-making children

You have permission to attend a trade school vs. a university because not everyone is meant for school, but all are meant to do well.

Working at Amazon, being a truck driver, being a case manager, CNA, PCA, dumpster truck driver, working in warehouses, and these are worthy and needed jobs.

You have a right to be loved unconditionally and make the family you want to make.

You have permission to explore life and evolve with each experience you encounter, good and bad.

You are free to be gay, straight, lesbians, transgender, intersex, omnisexual, pansexual, asexual, demi sexual, bi sexual, poly, two spirited, black, white, hispanic, indian, brown skin, and free to express your self in drag; you have permission to express your identity and gender expression as fluid as it may be.

You have permission to have sex and experience sexual intimacy, however you feel is right for you

You have permission to be YOU

You have permission to walk in pride in your recovery

YOU are wonderful

YOU are amazing

You are talented

You are beautiful, handsome, and fine as wine

You are a one-of-a-kind, after you, there will never be another you.

You are loved and beloved by God/Jesus

You are spectacular

You are a work of art designed to be unique and worth trillions more than what money can buy.

You are, you don’t be ashamed

Don’t walk with your head low.

Don’t walk oppressed and suppressed

Walk in Power.

Walk in Strength

Walk in confidence

Walk in integrity

Walk with grit and resiliency

Walk in knowing not everyone will like you, but you are you, YOU love you, and are beloved by the universe

Lastly,

I give you permission to live out your God given potential, reaching self-actualization.

End.

Xih-Zih