Anxiety before TT and BR

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In a message dated 1/18/03 5:27:54 AM, Graduate-OSSG writes:

<< re Anxiety before TT and BR >>

It is not vanity here. It is something far past vanity in these matters. If

it were vanity only then everyone post gb with ps would be parading around

totally naked all the time in order to show off what-- their massive scars?

the imperfections of the ps, including the croooked incisiion lines across a

formerly large panni? Their still rumply somewhere skin texture? Yes, well

just line up here to the left anyone post op with ps whose greatest dream is

to go on Sixty Minutes LIVE and Naked as the day you were born. Hmmm, no

stampedes?!

The dream of perfection that vanity usually has (and is soon sorely awakened

from) certainly is not the reality. We don't see post gb/post ps people

hanging naked at church or running with everything flyng down the street,

except perhaps in one's own private bedroom (kitchen table, out in the park

at night, in the back seat of big ol' cars, over the tank of motorcycles, on

stair steps in the front hall, (after kids are asleep), very nice standing

one step up or kneeling on step for women, and etc--grin) (evil ceep made me

write that last part, sorry, it just took my mind there for a while...)

It is psychological good health that the heart and spirit are after. The

ego, well, it wants lots of things it can't have. But the spirit and heart

find well being as important as physical health, otherwise you have a body

with no bright light inside it. These matters of 'redundant skin' and breasts

long enough to bowl with, and hips fallen down around the knee caps, etc,

after huge weight losses are issues of phsycial health for poor spine and

neck and hips and knees and ankles, for adequate hygiene, AND they are

potential areas to be 'improved' for truly improved psychological wel being.

In America, peope like to pretend the psyche does not exist, or is not

important, or needs no attention. IT DOES. It is the light that shines fom

the windows. The quallity, the strength, the coloration of that light is what

is known as well being. Improved well being is not indulgent. It is the goal

of any sane mind. Your mind works toward this equanimity even when you are

not cooperating, it is constantly trying to be at the most ease possible SO

YOU CAN GO LIVE YOUR LIFE IN MORE IMPORTANT WAYS AND NOT FRITTER IT AWAY

WORRYING ABOUT YOUR RUFFLES.

whew, now I am tired. (grin)

love,

ceep G-mom

p.s. I ain't owning up to anything about the stairs or the motorsickle. I

just saw those in books. (And I just know I've been keeping a bridge around

here from London somewheres.)