Well, it has been a few years since my last blog. A friend however, has rekindled my passion for sharing my thoughts. I thank her for that (you'll be hearing from me soon). As well as over analyzing well, everything.
As I stood in front of the mirror today I thought jeeze, I'm getting fat. Am I fat? No. Am I getting fat? Nope. I'm pretty fit. In fact, I hate the word fat. It is a word that serves as ammo for bullies of all ages. To save you all a rant I'll just end it at that. Immediately after those thoughts followed what seemed to be a scripted monologue. "I am beautiful the way I am," etc. etc.. While there is nothing wrong with that I began realizing that we say those things to ourselves because we as human beings were entirely too sick of feeling the pressure on how we "should look." If you ask me however, I believe we are unknowingly pressured to think those positive thoughts as well.
Truth is we all feel like crap about something at some point in time. Why? Because we are HUMAN. Humans have emotions, good, bad, sensible and sometimes the farthest thing from. So then why I ask, is it that when I think those positive thoughts I sometimes feel bad for it? It's because I don't always believe it... along with every other person on this planet. I would just like to take a minute to propose that we re-direct the pressure to just feeling...You guessed it...Human. This isn't just about weight, either. It's about anything and everything that makes you - a perfectly worthy and deserving person- feel like crap.
The reality is we all feel like crap for something at some point. The trick is not feeling even worse for feeling that way in the first place. Think about something you don't like about yourself. Got it? Good. If you really care that much, do something about it and use that negative human emotion as motivation to not feel that way anymore. If you don't care that much about it, then it may be time to just take a deep breath and say, " O.k. it is out of my system," and get over it. Embrace your inner human, citizens. It is much more real and forgiving than telling yourself something you don't believe.
-Its good to be back.
Mia Petitti
