Janet FraserMona's Daily Dose today is particularly apt for women, like me, whose bodies are seen by some as undesirable in so many ways simply because we have lived so long. I'm thankful to have lived as long as I have, with a body as healthy as it is, no matter how it looks. We've all lost someone we thought would be with us longer. I count my lucky stars not to be among them.
"To look honestly at our bodies as we age is to begin to understand what Bruce Lee meant when he said, “Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." To be water is to acknowledge the folly of “control.” Who wants to “control” their body? At a time when we enthusiastically vow to become ungovernable in the face of fascism, to believe we can “control” our bodies is not just the height of folly, it is a form of fascism of the self, surely."
