Growth

For so long, the scale was my enemy and my best friend all at once. It would either give me the validation I needed to go about my day with confidence, or break my heart and leave me upset and anxious for who knows how long. I don’t really know when the scale began slowly fading away from its role as this paramount figure in my life, but I think maybe it was when I stopped paying attention to it. That seems so simple, but it’s not. Today, what the scale said had no effect on me – I felt neither relief nor panic at the little blue numbers below me. What a crazy and amazing and beautiful and freeing revelation, representative of not only all I’ve gone through but also how far I’ve come.