"I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses." Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue, on the prevalence of obesity in the U.S.
Oh girlfriend! You tell it like it is, don't you? Well I'm a guilty one for being one of those "little houses," suffering from obesity. Isn't that what people say, "suffering from obesity"? Heck, I have not suffered! I've enjoyed every morsel of food I've put into this mouth. Mouth, the entrance to my house. The door of my house is my mouth. A couple of weeks ago, I got pissed off at my dentist because he was complaining while doing my dental work about my "small mouth." Heck, I paid him almost one thousand dollars (out my pocket besides what the insurance paid) to work in my small mouth, quit your bitching! Well, I got that beef off my chest.
Speaking of chests, I guess my chest is like the living room of my house... large and open and clearly visible. Anyone that's been to my home knows that it's large living room with windows on two sides to basically see right through our house from the front yard to the back yard. I love the open, airy feeling it evokes to sit there. I have nothing to hide and my house shows it!
Going back to my mouth being the entrance to my "house," the door to my actual house is small too. It's not a double door or large 8 foot door like that of several neighbors. It's a standard size door with two slim windows surrounding it, like dimples on my cheeks.
I love designing houses, I do it in my head and then put the ideas down on graph paper. I designed the present and recent past homes we have lived in. I'm sure that no matter how many homes I design for building, I will find some changes that I would make in the future. In my present home, I'd change the size and some of the lay-out of the kitchen and dining area. It's true that I would like to change some of my house, my body.
Right now, "my house" - my body is larger than necessary and misshapen. Is it the type of house I would have designed for myself? No, but it's what I have to live in right now. Do I need to chastise myself for building this house? Probably so. Do I need to accept myself for building this house? Probably so. Do I need to love myself for being me.... right where I'm at in this large, misshapen house? Probably so.
I didn't think that while I was enjoying those morsels of food coming through the doorway of my house that I was endangering my house. However, this house, as it is today, is not the shape, style or square footage that fits peacefully into my physical, emotional or spiritual being.
What rooms do I need to change or remodel? Well the chest (or living room) is what it is and always will be, I can live with that. :) The stomach (kitchen and dining room) needs some changes, mainly internal. Internal, as in what types of foods I allow into these rooms, more veggies and fruits. The buttocks and thighs (bedroom) needs some action, as in exercise of all kinds. My head is the foundation of my house and contains the entrance to my house (mouth) and it needs to be relied on to provide safe and sane thoughts and decisions, a solid basis for my life.
Well, thanks Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue for shaking up my household. You're right, there are "people as little houses" all over this country, but not just Minnesota.
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