I just came across a quote from G. K. Chesterton which is about pigs, but which unintentionally summarizes so much of the way anorexic thinking warps my view of reality!
“…Pigs are very beautiful animals. Those who do not think so do not look at anything with their own eyes but through other people’s eyeglasses.”
And how long have I spent looking at everything through other people’s eyeglasses (by shaming myself, listening to crazy ideas, and projecting them onto everyone else, imagining that that’s what THEY think and say about me) and ignoring the natural beauty of everyone and everything on this planet?
It had especial resonance for me because of the pig thing, too – associating pigs with being fat and being fat with being ugly and worthless, in a huge avalanche of unreasonable, illogical, insane thinking. What about you – what is your gut reaction when you look at these lovely pigs? And how do you feel about it?
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July 2nd, 2009 at 10:29 am
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