Saturday, October 17, 2009

Power



Last night my skirt was short and shiny, my heels were high, my waist was thin and I felt awesome. Hungry and awesome and as I looked across the sea of bodies and faces I surged with power. I didn't eat and therefore I was better than them. I was electric.

Today was hot and delicious, but I was sent haywire by a chocolate doughnut I insisted on resisting. The fury of denying something I craved so intensely burned through me all day and I became irate and reckless. I ended up imbibing every form of compensation available to me - cheese, nuts, dried fruit, chocolate - then threw up this evening following dinner with my family.

The storm after the power surge. But where is the calm?

6 comments:

  1. Ha denial of the gluttonous foods.... always so empowering to remember how much you're not letting sink into your body.....

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  2. There is no calm.

    This storm gains and wanes in intensity but only ends when you step out of it into the sunshine.

    At least, that is how I feel about it today. :/

    xox

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  3. To me, this sounds a bit like manifest destiny chic, but replacing gluttony with famine.

    Nonetheless, without sounding sadistic, I quite like this post. It's dramatic without ever being a fawning platitude.

    Stay cool.

    http://trustyourtechnolust.blogspot.com

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  4. your day of power sounds incredibly awesomely envyingly amazing. those are the days we live for, i think. today i had not a day like that, but a moment like that, and so i went to the grocery store and had a good wander and really looked at and appreciated all the foods i was not eating. i felt like a god.

    and then i found the peppermint bark chocolate bar which has little chunks of candy cane in white chocolate on top of milk chocolate. crumble crumble.

    but for that one shining moment i was god-like. it's fucking addicting, isn't it?

    i love you i love you we are surging about together in these strange and hazy waters. we will find that power again, i am sure.

    x xx

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  5. Great post. Your night of triumph sounds amazing. If only our greatest moments were sustainable.

    I also have to compliment the picture. You always find the most gorgeous pictures to post.

    -anylanet

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  6. <3

    Cheese, nuts, dried fruits, chocolate. That is my EXACT binge. Whoosh channelling.

    And its so freezing in NSW. Hate hate hate.

    You enigma you.

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