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Consume

August 6, 2022
By raymondfox GOLD, North Wales, Pennsylvania
raymondfox GOLD, North Wales, Pennsylvania
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My alarm goes off. I wake up and see the sun shining through the windows. I feel its warmth. I hear the birds sing their lullabies from outside my window. As I get up my feet hit my floor. Cold to the touch. I stand up and stretch. I stretch out all the bad from the night before. I go over to my mirror and realize how small I am. Not small as in short, but small as in skinny. So skinny that I look like one of those skeletons you see around Halloween. But I still see fat. My mind clouded by anorexia. I don’t see how small I am. I still see that my thigh gap isn’t big enough. And that my underarms could use some work. Or the way my chest looks from the side. Or how long my neck is. I try to see how beautiful I am but that's hard. With an eating disorder all you can see are your imperfections. The imperfections that you will never be able to fix just. I hear a knock at my door. My mom comes in with my breakfast. The calorie scoreboard in my head immediately illuminates with numbers. The toast with butter 116, 91 for the scrambled eggs, 103 for the glass of milk and 140 for the bowl of cheerios. I wish there was an off switch to this scoreboard, but there is not. It runs off of what little energy I have in the first place. This illness has consumed me. Ironic to be consumed by an illness in which one consumes little to no food.


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