Feed Yourself

Weekend Worthy

brought to you by Cheryl Strayed…

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I re-read this quote today by Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things.  I read the book earlier this year and it’s one of the quotes I’ve returned to on several occasions already.   Tiny Beautiful Things is a collection of her advice columns from when she was writing anonymously as Dear Sugar over on The Rumpus.

The quote comes from a column she wrote about advice she would give to her younger self:

 

“There is nothing more boring and fruitless than a woman lamenting the fact that her stomach is round.  Feed yourself.”

 

This morning I kept seeing that ad about how to reduce belly fat with this “one weird trick.”   Have you all seen those?  And then this afternoon I saw an ad when I was flipping through a magazine declaring that it was time to RISE UP AGAINST HAIR THINNING with this amazing shampoo (really?  That’s what we’re rising up against?  Not justice or poverty or human trafficking?).

I think secretly I want to be crazy beautiful while simultaneously not caring at all about being beautiful.  Wouldn’t that be nice!?  Anyhow, it’s good to remind myself from time to time and I’m going to be ruminating on this over the weekend.   And if that doesn’t work, I’ll go with this one instead, also by Strayed:

 

Stop worrying about whether you’re fat. You’re not fat. Or rather, you’re sometimes a little bit fat, but who gives a sh*%?

 

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