“Imagine being seventy-five and thinking how you never went
swimming in the sea on a warm night because your thighs jiggled. Imagine
realizing you never laughed until you couldn’t breathe because your teeth
weren’t straight or white enough. You never embraced the sun on the beach
because of the stretch marks on your stomach. You never allowed yourself to have
fun because the pressure to look perfect consumed you. Imagine being seventy-five
and realizing you’ve hidden yourself away for fear of being real. Imagine
realizing all the years you wasted hating yourself, but now it’s too late to go
swim in the sea at night. Now it hurts to laugh and you’re too weak to travel
to the beach. Imagine realizing all this time you were perfect the way you
were, but now it’s too late to do anything about it. Don’t let that happen. You
deserve to realize you’re enough and always have been, before you’re seventy-five." – Lauren Dalton
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