Uno.

This is probably my first and last entry, haha we’ll see. Today marks the day where my self-esteem hit the lowest. I’m not proud of how big I’ve become, but I’m aware. I don’t need people to nag at me or to tell me the obvious. I know what I have to do, I just don’t want to do it.

But today, opportunities presented themselves in the form of snacks, MULTIPLE times throughout the day. I look back and think that I could’ve do easily said yes so many times, but my willpower was almost akin to green lantern’s. I was, beyond all doubt, hungry.

Nevertheless, I am proud of how I can say no. Painful, yes, but I really, really, want a change in comments.

I am reminded of an incredible kindness of a grocer. I say he’s a grocer because he stacks food in aisles at Shaw’s. It wasn’t a busy day, and mom had to get groceries for me for a Henry David Thoreau project I had to do for English class. I haaaaated carrots. Big, baby, I don’t care, I just didn’t like the taste. While my mom was trying futilely to convince me to eat carrots, this grocer came by and told the young 16 year old me that carrots were healthy and I should eat them. So I was thinking he had great sales technique, but I wasn’t buying any of it. Until he opened a brand new packet, just so I could taste one. It was the kindest carrot I ever tasted. I was shocked at how far above and beyond his call of duty he went. He made sure I finished a baby carrot before walking away, not even stopping to see if I would buy a packet.

The packet he opened, he did it at his own cost. It was the first time a total stranger stepped up so far for me, I still can barely believe it. I didn’t like carrots, I still don’t. I wouldn’t jump onto the carrot bandwagon just yet. But the grocer, however insignificant he thinks he is, would never know how big an impact he made on me that I would still remember him today.

So big, that I bought a packet and ate every last carrot in there that day.

You’ve been eating cupcakes wrong your whole life

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