Frozen Nowhere

Think of your manifesto-ey thing as a big yeah-baby declaration of what you believe in and what you will not put up with.

 

Obviously, you can call it whatever you want. A declaration. A list of “here are my principles”. A battle cry.

 

The point is: people know where you stand. You know where you stand.

•  I don’t need to make sense to anyone, dammit! I have the right to be irrational, illogical and fae if that’s how I feel, dammit.
• I have the right to feel the way I feel, without anyone telling me to “get over it”, dammit! If I feel it, I feel it, and I will continue to feel it, dammit, and I will NOT let anyone make me feel bad, guilty, or otherwise wrong for MY feelings, DAMMIT.
• I have the right to swear like a fucking sailor if I want, dammit, even if I am a “girl”
• NO ONE has the right to talk down to me, make me feel small, or otherwise use words to abuse me ANY MORE, dammit.
• I am an incredible, fantastic, sexy woman, and no one has the right to tell me otherwise, dammit!
• I don’t have to eat chocolate (in any form) before noon, dammit!
• I WILL live outside the boxes that people try to put around me, dammit.
• I will live up to MY expectations of myself, and no one else’s, dammit!
• I have the right to be interested in anything, or lose interest in anything, without feeling I have to explain myself, dammit.
• I am Pagan, DAMMIT, and I will live my life in a Pagan manner. I will celebrate Yule and Samhain with Christmas and Hallowe’en.
• I do not need anyone to tell me what I believe in, dammit. I KNOW what I believe, I believe what I believe, and I do NOT have to explain it to anyone outside my head, dammit (unless I want to).
• No one has the right to tell me that I am going to hell, dammit, just becuase my beliefs are not theirs.
• I will celebrate how I see fit, dammit.
• I will celebrate what I want to celebrate, dammit.
• I don’t have to do what everyone else is doing, read what everyone else is reading, watch what everyone else is watching, follow who everyone else is following, or eat what everyone else is eating. I am my own person, dammit.
• I WILL sing at every opportunity to do so, whether people are in the car with me or not, dammit. Sing along or shut up, dammit
• I will dance when I feel like it, dammit.
• I am not too old to take dance lessons, dammit.
• My body is MY business, dammit. I have the right, dammit, to pierce any part I want, dammit, I have the right to tattoo myself OR NOT, dammit, as I see fit.
• I can make a mess if I want to, dammit!
• I can create if I feel like it, dammit!
• My dreams are not up for discussion, dammit!
• My spirituality is MY business, dammit! I will share it or not depending on how I see fit, and things will change and grow and FLOW as I see fit, dammit! That’s the beauty of being Pagan, dammit!
• I will not apologize that my children come first in my life, dammit!
• I will not crush the spirits of my children to please their father or their school anymore, dammit! I will stand up for them and their rights and I will fight for fair treatment, dammit!
• I will not let a man make me feel like i have to PROVE my worthiness, dammit. If someone can’t love me for me, and treat me well, then there is no reason to keep hoping for more.
• My dreams will come to be, I just don’t know know that will happen yet, dammit. Just because I don’t know HOW it will come to be doesn’t mean that it won’t, dammit.