Friendly Life Lesson

Are you familiar with Aesop's fables? I loved these little stories with a moral when I was little. Lion and the Mouse. Ant and the Grasshopper. Tortoise and the Hare. I had them on tape and would listen to them over and over again being reminded that one good deed deserves another, to not put off till tomorrow what needs to be done today and that slow and steady wins the race.

In my last blog entry I referred to another fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. In this fable we learn that a liar will not be believed even when he tells the truth. I expressed how I felt like the lying boy in the world of dieting, calling again and again for help, but failing over and over leaving my "towns people," my friends frustrated with my failure. What I came to learn, rather quickly and assuredly, is that THEY did NOT feel that way. At all. 

Like in The Lion and the Mouse they reminded we never know when we will need help, but that we are always there for each other in the big and the small and that every helpful deed given will one day be a deed received. That is what friends are for. 

They encouraged me to pick myself up and get back to work doing what I know needs to be done and to take it one step at a time, slow and steady. This race can still be won!

They did not see me as a liar, but as a try-er and as someone who was in need of an encouraging push and reminder that my success is not in a number on a scale, but is in each positive step in the right direction of getting healthy. They also reminded me that the person on the inside, the person I tend to forget about, is amazing and worthwhile no matter my successes and failures.

Thank you my friends for believing in me and giving me a good swift, firm reminder, not to give up.