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April 2006 - Autumn ...WhyWeight Hello Everyone A few weeks ago, a woman walking towards me on the beachfront wore a T-shirt with a big, bold slogan that read 'WIP' - at my age it's hard to be innocent, so the innuendo of the slogan made me *Grin* unabashedly in response. Until she approached a little closer, and I read the 'small print', which then changed the significance of the statement entirely as it read 'I am a Work In Progress'. My response changed completely, and I was actually angry that someone - a young, attractive woman in her early twenties, would believe enough that she is a 'Work In Progress' to wear an article of clothing that said so. Since that time, I have tried unsuccessfully to forget the incident, still it lingers in my mind, the memory causing me deep concern. Logically, she may actually believe the slogan to be true, or she could even just be wearing a T-shirt like that as a bit of fun, who knows? I realise that over the years I have received many emails from different people, men and women - from different walks of life, with different backgrounds and history, different life experiences and significantly different perceptions of who they are. I also know from my own personal experience of myself and my life, that I feel different about who I am from moment to moment..... However, I have always believed, and known, even if I often doubt the fact, that Yes, I am on an adventure to experience and learn as much as I can on the journey we call life. I make mistakes, some of them doozies, I enjoy success, I work hard to achieve, I cry, I laugh, I get moody, and struggle with PMS. Sometimes, I eat healthy food, drink plenty of water, get enough sleep and rest, enjoy happy times with my family, work in balance and my body performs at peak.... Other times, I work too long at my PC, miss too many meals, drink too much Coke, miss my Karate classes, take advantage of my health, and my body responds with fatigue and even illness if I ignore the signs to take a break. Sometimes, I even overindulge in rich and tasty treats, my weight going up and my waist bands tightening, then I stop to reflect and evaluate what I am doing and why. Yet I know without doubt that I am a whole and complete being. I know that like you, we have all experienced similar emotions and feelings.... However, I know that I am a whole and complete being through all of life's experience, and that You are too. No matter what I weigh, or what my dress size is, or even what my height is, the colour of my eyes, the size of my waist, the colour of my skin, my history and my background.... and even Yours! I know that I am a whole and complete being. Never have I been and never will I be, a "Work In Progress" and neither will You... And I know that my Body despite it's imperfections, and in the words of Laina, one of the WhyWeight subscribers, 'is an amazing, complex, fascinating what do you even call it, machine, organism, vehicle, miracle that works incredibly effectively and which animates and embodies my life force and consciousness'..... simply a miraculous gift that is whole and complete, and my Mind whilst complex and difficult to define, allows me to experience all that life has to offer, fear and love, tears and laughter, deep emotions and even frivolous fun... in synchronicity with my Heart and Spiritual Essence, allows me to be a 'Whole and Complete Being' ....capable of anything and everything, with unlimited potential, the same as You, yet also unique and different allowing me to be special, just as you are too. And whilst I make mistakes and often fail in my endeavours, I can choose to believe that they are only steps forward to ultimate success and achievement, believing if I continue to try and work towards my end results and success I will realise that those mistakes or failures were and are just the lessons I need to realise that, I am a whole and complete being with unlimited potential and capable of anything and everything. So just for today, I will and I hope You will too... Do the unexpected! Just for this moment - Just for this moment - Just for this moment - Just for this moment - Just for this moment - -- Mands I sincerely hope You will too! April 2006 Copyright © Mandy Swinburne Email: [ Mands ] |