I have spent a handful of years trying to grow my body. I realise now that I will never feel "big enough" for multiple reasons. One, the lifestyle it would take to sustain would be unhealthy for me, both mentally and physically. Two, I realised I had come to associate my very proportions with being inadequate and unattractive. Having long, slender limbs, for example.

I therefore invite you to see my musculature (such as it is) as an armor of scars, an outward sign of an inward feeling of inadequacy.

Now, rather than trying to become "big enough", I am working on undermining the belief that there was anything wrong with my body to begin with. My body has and will change over the years, and I want to embrace and respect it however it looks or performs.

Being bigger, smaller, thinner, thicker, fitter, more lean or muscular does not make you a better (or worse) person, more (or less) ttractive, or more (or less) deserving of love.

Hierarchising bodies will not do.

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