I'm Living By Example By Continuing On

True Nobility Isn't About Being Better Than Anyone Else; It's About Being Better Than You Used To Be.

She'd Tell Me How She'd Handle The Backhanded Compliment By Smiling And Pretending She Was Receiving A Genuine Compliment All The While Ignoring Their Attempt To Be Insulting. After All, It's The Way An Insult Is Received That Makes It An Insult. You Can't Really Give Offense Unless Someone Takes It.

I Finally Understood That By Being On A Perpetual Diet, I Had Practiced A "disordered" Form Of Eating My Whole Life. I Restricted When I Was Hungry And In Need Of Nutrition And Binged When I Was So Grotesquely Full I Couldn't Be Comfortable In Any Position By Lying Down. Diets That Tell People What To Eat Or When To Eat Are The Practices Inbetween. And Dieting, I Discovered, Was Another Form Of Disordered Eating, Just As Anorexia And Bulimia Similarly Disrupt The Natural Order Of Eating.

Reality Tv Now Doesn't Feel Reality Tv When It Started. The Line Between Reality And Fiction Is Blurred. So Many Of These People Are Phony Or Shallow, In Their Own Right. If You've Ever Watched Any Of The Real Housewives, Or Those Types Of Shows, They're All Performing. Even Though They're Real People, They're Performing.

When It’s Quiet In My Head Like This, That’s When The Voice Doesn’t Need To Tell Me How Pathetic I Am. I Know It In The Deepest Part Of Me. When It’s Quiet Like This, That’s When I Truly Hate Myself.