The prompt on the Write Bravely group was “What does your body need from you that you’ve been too busy to notice?” Here are my thoughts.
Dear Sunita,
I have carried you for over 60 years, growing and changing with time. I remember a time when you were younger, I made heads turn. But back then, you took pride in me. You cared for me.
Then you became a mother and I could no longer give you the best. I began failing you, and you in your pain and fear, did not realise that now I needed you to carry me.
Decades passed, you were too emotionally exhausted to pay attention to me and I absorbed the exhausted energy and tried my best but I was facing an internal mutiny with your autoimmune conditions.
I need you now, for the next 10, 15, 20 years we may have together to listen, to notice how I change, how I behave when you eat clean, when you exercise, when you take your meds, the time when you choose sleep over scrolling and binge watching serials.
Notice how I feel lighter, how I give you less pain, how I add to your joy & energy levels; how I make you live life more.
So all I am asking is that now that I am growing older, treat me with care, pamper me with love and I assure you we will be a winning team once again.
With all my love,
Your body.