RDP Thursday: LITHE

Photo A.M. Moscoso

By the time I was 12 years old I was 5’4″ and I weighed about 90 lbs.

Of course when you are tall at a young age, when you are sort of out there and people think you are creepy,  they don’t say you are lithe or ‘tall and willowy ”

In my case my nearest and dearest told me I was ” overweight ” or some just straight up said I was fat and buying me nice clothes was a waste of money.

Of course nowadays I would kill to be around that weight and from what I’ve seen women my height have died trying to get there.

I must be honest.

I’ve always wanted someone to attach the word “lithe” to but  no matter how many diet pills I swallowed, how many hours I spent at the gym,  how long I starved myself for, I  have never had a single person close to me say, when they described me,  as I was anything other then ‘kind of big with frizzy hair”

So a few years ago my friend was talking about her daughter- who is truly a beautiful lady inside and out, she said that her daughter was always been lithe ( as to where she had to sort of work at maintaining her weight).

I always wanted to tell  my friend’s daughter how lucky she is that her Mom, when she pictures her in her mind’s eye, see’s a lithe and graceful woman.

My friend’s daughter is lucky- she is so lucky.

On the other hand,  I can comfort myself with that knowledge  that a year or so after I am dead and nothing more then a box of bones under the ground I will be lithe too.

It’s just a shame I won’t be around to see it.

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