Thursday, May 17, 2012

A Sign of Life

Fighting bulimia, I imagine, is much like battling a morphine addiction.  Once you have it, it never truly goes away.  Things, events, people, weather, weird things set me on the trajectory.  I have got to find a job before I my Facebook 'liking"spree gets any worse.

For the rest of the evening I am going to allow myself to just feel my wounds, experience the hurt from them, and find a way to be okay again.  There are just moments in my days, these days, when I no longer feel stable and strong,  when I feel terrified and alone.  Part of it is that I have all sorts of time to think, part is that I have much to potentially be stressed about.

I'm not ready to leave Denver.  I like my life here and it's the first time in my life that I very honestly and truly love my life.  Today I found myself with an opportunity to walk down a street I had yet to explore in my neighborhood and decided I am ready to court the idea of a long term commitment to the highlands.  It was perfect.  Neighborhoods are like small towns all nestled in the efficiency of a large city municipality.  It's fantastic.  It's exciting to me.  I love great neighborhoods.  And I love fun reading about Economics.  And this is why people think I'm strange.  Among other things.

But I'm giving myself this night to grieve the transition I have found myself in.  It is okay to feel scared and sad right now.  My life is a big question mark.  I have a safe place to allow myself to grieve and that is the best gift I can give me, right now.

Crying doesn't indicate that I am weak.  Since the dawn of time it has been a sign that I am alive.


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