Saturday, December 8, 2012

The First Thing

The first thing is that you have to do and be at least like your body, and hopefully, love it enough to know it's what and who you are. If you don't like your body, and even hate your body, the war is over, and all the battles to do and be better won't succeed.

If you've hated your body from your childhood, because of all the criticism and verbal abuse you heard from your parents, teasing you got from your friends and classmates, and failures trying to be "normal", you may never win and will always lose.

Lose your self-esteem. Gone from childhood and never reclaimed or owned beyond hoping, trying and failing, realizing your body just isn't going to be what you want, even be someone anyone will like, and not even be someone anyone will love.

Lose yourself in hating what life gave you, hating hearing and being everything everyone said why you weren't any good, couldn't succeed and even be liked let alone loved. And you'll fight your whole life just to find peace with your body, maybe, hopefully, possibly.

But probably, no. Not in your lifetime, at least more than acceptance of what it and you can't be and are resigned to be in life, hate it or not, just the reality of your own body. It's the best you can do and be.

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