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I personally enjoyed this article and I wish more people would write things like this. Just reading someone eloquently list their thoughts and anxieties about a
by notus 8y ago
I personally enjoyed this article and I wish more people would write things like this. Just reading someone eloquently list their thoughts and anxieties about a certain issue really makes you feel not alone if you are going through the same thing. There was a paragraph where he questioned whether he would lose the good parts of himself by losing weight and I've had that same type of thinking applied to so many other aspects of my life, not necessarily weight, but mental illnesses that I sometimes believe give me insight I wouldn't otherwise have.
- danso 8y agoI was a bit astonished by how the article started: that this was the first time the author had confronted his weight problem in writing. This is someone who has had a long award-winning writing career in newspapers and online, who has had no problem writing about many other subjects. Just goes to show how deep the personal shame he has felt his whole life.