It wont tell you the way your eyes light up when you talk about the things you love.
Youll never be told your worth.
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Updated 7 years ago,September 6, 2018
The scale is a complete and utter lie.
It whispers promises of happiness and success if only we can reach a number on its screen.
It holds immense power over us, and becomes the source we look to, to find our worth.
Why do we give something so insignificant the control to determine our entire significance as human beings?
The scale can tell you one thing and one thing only.
Your relationship with gravity.
And that is it.
A simple number, that tells you nothing except how much your body weighs.
And in all reality, why do we even care?
And I dont mean we shouldnt care about our health.
Health comes in all weights, shapes, and sizes.
But the scale, the scale comes in one size: NOT SKINNY ENOUGH.
Weight as a means of measuring beauty and worth is a socially constructed idea.
Because the truth is beauty and worth is far too vast to be measured or weighed.
So we know what the scale can tell you.
We know it can tell you lies.
It can tell you youre too this, or not enough of that.
But what cant it tell you?
What is hiding behind that number?
What are all the things the scale wont tell you?
Well heres the thing.
If you ask the scale what its hiding, its not going to tell you.
To find, what about you, that is actually true.
But thats what Im here for.
The scale will NEVER tell you, all the things that I am about to.
It wont tell you the way your eyes light up when you talk about the things you love.
It wont say a peep about the way that dress compliments your God given curves.
You wont be told that that smile of yours lights up every room you walk into.
Youll never know that the way you radiate life makes the very essence of you glow.
It wont whisper in your ears, the way your comforting hands have dried so many tears.
Youll never be told your worth, or how this world needs your unique gifts on this earth.
Your beauty wont be mentioned, or the way it grows with every adventure.
This world needs the gifts that only you’ve got the option to bring.
And when I say you, I dont mean 90 pound you, or 900 pound you.
I mean we need your heart, your soul, and your light.
And that will stay the same regardless of what the scale says or what that number changes to.
Take care of your body.
Its important for you to be healthy, so we can keep you around for as long as possible.
Treat yourself with love.
Eat vegetables, and eat cupcakes when you want them too.
Go for a run, and spend a rainy day curled up with popcorn and a movie marathon.
And to make it truly live, you have to let go of the scale.
Because that is something of death, not of life.
