Thre Rights Of Any Friendship or Aquantence

I. You have the right to act toward others according to your own beliefs and values (not according to theirs), to live your own life (not to be lived by others), to live out your own decisions and to live with their consequences.

II. You have the right to see others as equal (regardless of how they see you), to esteem others as neither superior nor inferior (in spite of how they esteem you).

 III.You have the right to renegotiate relationships (although the others resist review), to take new positions (though the others prefer the old), to change your mind (even when others doubt you have one).

IV. You have the right to fail (therefore the right to choose freely), the right to make mistakes (therefore the right to take risks).

V. You have the right to see your own perceptions, to feel your own feelings, to think your own thoughts, to act your own actions, to experience your own accountability.