“It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth.”— Susanna Kaysen, from “Girl, Interrupted,” originally published c. 1993
I am going to make a life for myself that I want to live. I am going to learn how to love myself in all forms. I am choosing to heal. I am choosing to be me. I am choosing myself.
i’m so thankful we’re alive to smell flowers and touch saltwater and get chilled in the breeze and take deep breaths and make foods warm with love and dance and laugh and move and wake up and dig our hands in dirt and eat strawberries and draw mindlessly and remember and sing and joke and walk down the same street again and again and make meaning. we are so lucky we get to be and feel and keep going
you don’t have to be thin to enjoy things. you do not have to “earn” meaningful experiences. go take a walk in the rain. sit on a hill at night and watch the stars. the earth has never had a weight limit.