That part of the book really struck me too, because that was the moment when I realized that her problem had nothing to do with self-indulgence and everything to do with self-image. What did you think of her mother? I was surprised that she's managed to make peace with her mother. She's a bigger person that I would be under the circumstances. When that family "friend" was expressing sexual interest in her and she just wanted to scream out "What is the matter, you as my parents are supposed to PROTECT me from this!" -- that made me unable to forgive her.
As for my own body transformations... Hm. Braces as a teenager. Contact lenses at 15, and glasses well before that. That was the biggest transformatioin because I could finally see. My vision was so bad and I hadn't realized it so the change felt, and still does, miraculous. I've had 9 piercings, 7 of which I still have -- four ear helixes, two earlobes, one tragus (part of your ear), one eybrow, and a nose piercing. I still have the scars from the missing two and I miss them both terribly. Sometimes I still think they are there. I've also had a few moles removed and I want LASIK desperately but I've got to work up the nerve, plus the facility I want to go to refuses to do the procedure on anyone under thirty. That gives me 2 1/2 more years to get brave.
I think of my hair as transformative too. I used to have extremely straight long hair and I cut it so short all at once that it was shaved in the back. (I'm sure I talked to you about this.) It felt extraordinarily liberating both physically and psychologically and my hair's been quite short ever since.
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Date: 2007-02-11 01:00 pm (UTC)As for my own body transformations... Hm. Braces as a teenager. Contact lenses at 15, and glasses well before that. That was the biggest transformatioin because I could finally see. My vision was so bad and I hadn't realized it so the change felt, and still does, miraculous. I've had 9 piercings, 7 of which I still have -- four ear helixes, two earlobes, one tragus (part of your ear), one eybrow, and a nose piercing. I still have the scars from the missing two and I miss them both terribly. Sometimes I still think they are there. I've also had a few moles removed and I want LASIK desperately but I've got to work up the nerve, plus the facility I want to go to refuses to do the procedure on anyone under thirty. That gives me 2 1/2 more years to get brave.
I think of my hair as transformative too. I used to have extremely straight long hair and I cut it so short all at once that it was shaved in the back. (I'm sure I talked to you about this.) It felt extraordinarily liberating both physically and psychologically and my hair's been quite short ever since.