Baby Steps...

Had a conversation with a post op yesterday.. then read this as posted previously elsewhere on OH... Think it fits for the baby steps I and others are achieving to live in this world without the abuse of food. __________________________________________________ On becoming "Real" From The Velveteen Rabbit "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." __________________________________________________ Here's to having a REAL day... Towanda