Wednesday 28 August 2024

Desert Wind

 


“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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