Your Body

Have you even been eating and suddenly you are hyper aware of how the food feels in your mouth? That meat is actually meat? 

That you have a body? 

The horror of having a body. It’s terrifying. We are not simply a soul stuck in a fleshy vessel. We are our body, we often forget that. Until we get hurt or get sick. Suddenly we are hyper aware of our body. Our heart beating in our chest. 

Do you feel it? Beating in your chest?

Do you see the skin move over your bones? Feel the fabric of your clothes brush against your skin. Feel your hair against your face? Feel the weight of your own body?

Your body isn’t just part of you. You are your body and your body is you.

You are not cut off from your body. At least in the sense that you are not separate . If your body gets hurt so do you. You are one.

It’s disgusting. It makes me feel sick to my stomach.

I have a body.

I feel it.

I think it.

I know it.

- Sleep deprived sack of flesh (what would a human look like if it suddenly didn’t have any bones anymore?)