Wow, Carol that was fantastic. I had to read it two or three times.

Isn't it interesting how, when we talk to that body as if it's a different person, it suddenly becomes something 'worth' taking care of? We tend to take excellent care of our babies, our spouses, our pets, our careers, the car, the new hardwood floors... but our bodies take what's leftover at the end of the day, because the body is just 'you'. Not only are we too busy to take care of it, we also unleash incredible rage on it for "betraying" us.

But when you consider that body to be a seperate entity; something that works hard for you no matter how badly you treat it, you become aware of how much more care and consideration it deserves - and you realize that we, in fact, have betrayed our bodies, and not the other way around.