Another Bill of Rights[1]
·You have the right to be you-the way you are, the way you want to be.
·You have the right to grow, to change, to become, to strive, to reach
for any goal, to be limited only by your degree of talent and amount
of effort.
·You have the right to privacy-in marriage, family, or any relationship
or group-the right to keep a part of your life secret, no matter how
trivial or important, merely because you want it to be that way. You
have the right to be alone part of the each day, each week and each year
to spend time with and on yourself.
·You have the right to be loved and to love, to be accepted, cared[2]
for, and adored, and you have the right to fulfill that right.
·You have the right to ask questions of anyone at anytime in any matter
that effects your life, so long as it is your business to do so; and to
be listened to and taken seriously.
·You have the right to self-respect and to do everything you need to do
to increase your self-esteem, so long as you hurt no one in doing so.
·You have the right to be happy, to find something in the world that is
meaningful and rewarding to you and that gives you a sense of
completeness.
·You have the right to be trusted and to trust and to be taken at your
word. If you are wrong, you have the right to be given a chance to make
a good if possible.
·You have the right to change your mind.
·You have the right to be free as long as you act responsibly and are
mindful[3] of the rights of others and of those obligations that you
entered into freely.
·You have the right to win, to succeed, to compete, to make plans, to see
those plans fulfilled, to become the best you can possibly become.
·You have a right to boundaries and limits, a right to be intentional,
a right to choice.
Vocabulary:
[1] Bill of Rights: The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution,
added in 1791 to protect certain rights of citizens;
《人权法案》1971年增加的用以保护公民的某些权利的
美国宪法前十个修正案；
A declaration of certain rights of subjects,
enacted by the English Parliament in 1689;
《权利法案》1689年英国国会制定的关于某些权力的宣告
[2] care for: 关心；关怀；照料；照顾
[3] mindful (adj.): attentive; heedful; 留神的；警觉的