A Bill of Rights for Normal Neurotics

1. The right to be sick
2. The right to be uptight
3. The right to be toxic
4. The right to  live in the there and then
5. The right to be un-clear
6. To be somebody else
7. To disown, project, introject, retroflect, genuflect, repress, and willfully to sublimate
8. To eat meat, sugar, fats, carbohydrates, and food additives
9. To turn off
10. To hold on, to create and maintain clutter
11. To be unresponsive and irresponsible
12. To have sticky, conflicted, unresolved, normal relationships
13. To be divided, disintegrated, untogether, and unwhole
14. To willfilly construct an ego and deliberately to inhabit therein
15. To be closed
16. To rationalize and overintellectualize
17. To be irrational
18. To be ungrounded, spaced-out, off-center, and unaware
19. To be low, to feel depressed, to worry, to not think positively, to complain
20. To generate, cultivate, and hoard karma
21. To open only two eyes
22. Not to accept oneself
23. Not to work it out; to maintain unresolved conflicts
24. Not to think it through, to stereotype, to simplify
25. To be armored, defensive, blocked, stuck, contactless, anxious, character-ridden, inauthentic, and paranoid
26. To be out of touch
27. To be dependent, co-dependent, overly independent, or all of these
28. To be manipulative, selfish, self-absorbed, uncommunicative, or their opposites
29. To be asleep, in the dark, unenlightened, imprisoned on the physical plane, limited, chakra-closed, and otherwise unspiritual
30. To be an unbeliever, infidel, agnostic, atheist, or true believer; to change beliefs
31. To be self-righteous, to have all the answers; to change those answers
32. To be incompetent, inarticulate, undecided, and overwhelmed
33. To be embarrassed; to feel guilt and shame
34. To be free from other people's categories
35. To fake it
36. To be
37. Or not to be
38. And, in all general and particular ways, to muddle through.