A Short Segment from Self-Care and Disaster
Dear Body,
I’m sorry for the ways in which I have hurt you. You and I have always had a semi-distant relationship. I know I’m lucky that you don’t look hideous and that you can walk but I also never really cared about you. You are the kind of friend who has been so loyal that you never made me “pay up” or try and prove the ways in which I respected you. Now that I am on the journey of trying to respect you, I realize that you can’t magically be fixed or unbroken. Yes, you have always been loyal, but you have always held me at arm’s length.
I have so many things I want to be doing; like working all the time, exercise and yoga, walking more to every friend’s house, but sometimes you refuse to hold me up. “That’s enough,” you say, as if I to remind me that I don’t have all the power in this relationship.