I Believe, I Believe, I Believe, Oh, I Believe...

I believe in respect. I believe in respect and being respected. I believe that I am a good person, a nice person to know, a good one to have on your side. I believe my past does not define who I am. I believe I am capable of having nice things. I believe I am capable of having healthy relationships. I believe in self-affirmations. I believe in karma. I believe in getting what I deserve. I believe in getting what I don’t deserve, and I believe in learning lessons daily. I believe in learning through my mistakes. I believe in second chances. I believe in not messing up. I believe in starting over and doing better, even though I can’t always pull it off. I believe in truth, always. I believe that not knowing the truth will kill me later. I believe that not telling the truth will bite me in the ass later. I believe in huge beds. I believe in bubble baths, nail polish and girl talk, but I don’t believe in Sex and the City nor the stereotypes. I believe in feminism and women’s rights. I believe in women’s empowerment, and I believe that we women need to stop being such bitches to each other and band together for a greater cause. I believe women need to ally themselves, to make us independent, and not have to rely on men or outer goods to make us feel better about ourselves. I believe in Hindu spirituality. I believe in energy, the Great Mother, Native American spirituality. I believe in my power animal, a tiger. I believe more and more people are turning into animals every day. I believe in making fun of myself without being self-deprecating. I believe in not taking oneself seriously, but I also believe in taking what one loves as seriously as possible without losing the passion behind it. I believe in doing whatever I can to do what I love. I believe in following what needs to be done for things I don’t want to do, but only if I don’t lose myself in the process. I believe I am not who I was a year ago. I believe I am a different person every day. I believe in being a kid, I believe in being five years old and I believe in having fun. I believe in taking joy in the simple things. I believe that everything I just said can be perceived as incredibly cliché, and I believe I may be taking liberties with the things I say I believe. In the end, though, that’s up to me. I don’t know what I support the most out of all of these, but I know that I’m an idealist, I believe in so many things, that all of them are true.