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Ano-Hou (answer to a prayer) Life Enhancement!

“I Gotta Be Me.”

This was the title to one of Sammy Davis Jr.’s Mega-hit songs back in the sixties.

Those who remember those days, will recall hearing that song playing over and over again… in the subway, on the train, in the supermarkets, and on the lips of virtually every one you passed by…

And yes, when you were alone in your car, even you joined in with the chorus, ‘I Gotta Be MEEEEEEEEEEE!’

It was as ballsy a song as the times themselves….

How could you go wrong? When the first paragraph of the song proclaimed:

Whether I’m right or whether I’m wrong.
Whether I find a place in this world or never belong.
I gotta be me, I’ve gotta be me!
What else can I be, but what I am?

Imagine the freedom, of that proclamation!

No more ‘pretending’, no more hiding, no more inauthenticity.

This is the year… THIS IS THE YEAR!

You Gotta Be You!

I want to live, not merely survive!
And I won’t give up this dream
Of life
that keeps me alive
I gotta be me… I gotta be me!
*The dream that I see, makes me what I am!*

You’re singing it right now, aren’t you?

It’s time to Love Your Spirit with such conviction once more…

If not now, then when? If not YOU, then who??

Choose, to adore yourself with utter and complete abandon…

Stand in front of the mirror and proclaim, ‘I GOTTA BE ME!’

That far-away prize, a world of success
Is waiting for me if I heed the call!
I won’t settle down, won’t settle for less
As long as there’s a chance that I can have it all!!

Yes, yes, I’ll say it, do it naked, (o.k. perhaps not right now, IF you’re at work

When I’m in my livingroom, in my unfettered nakedness and of my own volition fervidly dancing ‘Riverdance’, ample body parts flailing amok, arms stiffly sunk into generous hips (trying to slow the ‘motion of the ocean’)…

The dogs barking madly, warning of possible oncoming epileptic seizure…

Kittens yowling for their fiddles as I, on every 3rd wheezing breath, belt out,

“I….(wheezzzee, gassssssp)

Gotta Be… (wheeeeeezzz, gasssssssssp, gulp)

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!“
(wheeeeeeeezzzze, gaaasssssssp, gulp, choke, pffffffffffftttttttt…expire…)

Why do I always suggest to you, to proclaim things neked?

Because it forces you to accept yourself,
*as you are*…

and it makes me laugh
(Probably not as much as the meter reader did the last time he dropped by unexpectedly…)

But laugh I do…

Daring to try, to do it or die!
I’ve gotta be me!

EMERGING

O.k… So, who’s still not listening????

LISTENING

Brightest Blissings!
You Gotta Be You, too!
Rev. Aileen W. Donovan CHt. RM/T.

(Sammy Davis Jr. – “I´ve Gotta Be Me“. Released by Reprise Records 1969. Arranged by Richard Wess. Written by Walter Marks. Produced by Jimmy Bowen.)