When You Miss Your Young Self
And you never appreciated her until now
She remembered the teenage bullying well. A thin and quiet girl, people thought it was easy to push her around.
“You’re so bony,” other girls told her. She stared at her too-skinny body in the mirror. An inferior body that other teens thought was ugly.
One boy stood up in front of her eighth-grade class. He called her by name and demonstrated her straight skinny figure to the class. She flushed with embarrassment, and everyone burst out laughing. Mortified, she sank into her seat wishing she could disappear.
Most days, she walked hunched over, trying to be as invisible as she possibly could.
And to this day she wishes Cher had appeared and slapped her face telling her to snap out of it.
Because now she’s old
A lifetime has gone by. She looks at photos of herself at 15 years old. What a lovely figure she had! What she wouldn’t give to have a waist like that again?
She remembers a time when everything she wore fit her. There was never any stress about entering a dressing room to try things on or worrying that any clothes made her look fat. Yet despite that, as a teen, she firmly believed she was ugly and not good enough.
