A picture of me and my body at Margate

I Sing the Body Electric

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Some people inhabit their bodies. They are completely comfortable with the flesh that adorns them. They don’t want to change a thing. These people are truly free. They are free of the pressures that the world puts on us to look a certain way. I envy them.

As much as I try I am not a fan of my body. I know that like many other people while I am completely on board with accepting others as they are and seeing the beauty that they possess, I just don’t see that in me.

I think a lot of it stems from the fact that I have a picture in my head of what I look like. I think most of us do that, have an internal representation of ourselves. Mine just happens to be pretty damn far afield from what I actually look like. In my head I am my slim 22 year old self. Sure the hair has receded and gone gray and I might not be quite as agile as I once was, but I am close. When in actuality when I wear a shirt I don’t tuck it in like I once used to because the straight line of the shirt covers up how far I am from thin anymore.

The point of this really isn’t to bemoan the changes that time and a life lived has wrought on my ,but to remind myself that I have earned the way I look, every wrinkle and bit of sag, the grey and the age spots, the scars and veins. That all of that means I have done something and learned things and to learn to find the beauty in the imperfections that add up to the person that people see. Because there is fuck all that I can do about most of it and I am damn sure not going to get myself a gym Dom and start frittering away the time that I could be busy living to workout.

I am going to take a page from those I see enjoying their bodies just the way they are, and get on with having a grand old time in the body I have right now.

Won’t you join me?

 

Michael

P.S. Thanks to the amazing people I follow on twitter for the inspiration for this post.


Comments

3 responses to “I Sing the Body Electric”

  1. Rose Bliss Avatar
    Rose Bliss

    I’m trying, Michael. I totally agree with what you said about it being easier to accept the imperfections of others than it is in ourselves.

    Dark Horizan spends a lot of time trying to bolster my self acceptance, and he has his work cut out for him. He insists he is attracted to me and my body, and while I believe him, I still have my doubts. Those deeply ingrained teachings of my parents and family that I’m just not good enough are difficult to overcome. I have to remind myself that everyone is attracted to different things for different reasons. I, myself, lean towards men in their 50’s, 60’s, 70’s with silvery gray hair, a larger body and a devilish glint in their eyes. That goes against everything I was told that women want, and since I’m a woman, I must want that too. So why should I be surprised when men (and women) want someone like me with a round beachball body and saggy tits? I’m just really glad they do.

  2. Curvaceous Dee Avatar
    Curvaceous Dee

    *adores you*

    xx Dee

  3. SilverEagle Avatar
    SilverEagle

    Oh Michael,

    How on point you are. As I’ve had children, aged, and worked sitting behind a desk for too many years, I found myself doubting that anyone including my Dom would find me attractive. I’m not obese and I walk several times a week, but gravity has taken its toll. I too, have a much different image of myself that what I see in the mirror, or worse yet, pictures! This year I made the decision to go to the beach without the “cover-up” on at all times, wear shirts and sleeveless shirts. “Here I am, world, take me or leave me.!” Interestingly, I’ve always felt my breasts were too big, but this very morning, my Dom asked me if a friend of mine had boobs that were as beautiful as mine! Beauty, indeed, is in the eyes of the beholder.

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