Trapped.

Dear Friend,

Do you ever feel trapped inside yourself? Doing all of the right things to move forward and be the best version of yourself  – eating healthy, exercising, and working – but feeling like absolutely nothing is changing. Eating healthy but not losing weight, exercising but not getting stronger, working but not making money.

Helen Keller once said “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” I’m eating healthy and exercising because I don’t think my body looks good enough, when I should be rewarding my body for keeping me alive and feeling well. My body is this amazing vessel capable of sustaining human life, but when I look in the mirror I think about the fat, the stretch marks, and the cellulite – signs of imperfection. I’m working two jobs, but I’m not grateful when I cash my paycheck – because it’s not enough. It’s enough to live comfortably, but not enough to quiet the voice of greed in the back of my head. I’ll always need more, and nothing will ever be enough. 

Having sight means recording images and sending them to the brain, while having vision is interpreting those signals. Sight is nothing without vision, and vision is nothing without sight. The two must work together to see the world, and also process it. 

Sight is ignorance without vision. To fully process and understand the meaning of each moment in our lives, we need both. What Helen Keller meant when she said “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision” is that the only thing worse than being blind is having all of the necessary tools to see, but choosing to be blind by not using them.

Love, Allie ❤

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