November 04th, 2018.

 

 

Have you ever thought about how crazy it is that our way of reacting has been printed so deeply in our minds that our thoughts about something so pure as the human body can lead to reactions that make us believe it could be something wrong?

 

It’s the most pure form of nature, we need it to exist, it’s part of us and it's everything, all at once.

 

Yet, we choose to keep living in a reality that’s been learned and passed on from generation to generation; and we’re so used to it that we don’t question why.

 

Why instead of seeing IT as IT is, something that we all have, the one thing we’ll have in common with everyone around the world, and it's exactly what should bring us all together, we have decided to see IT as something that shouldn’t be *SEEN.

 

When we’re born and during our first years of life we’re fully FREE.

 

It’s not a kids thing, it’s a human thing. It’s who we are.

 

We’re pure nature and instinct, but at some point we learned to be ashamed of it, we learned to cover it, so we created this perception where our nature was wrong/off.

 

If we choose to see reality as it is, nature will always call nature, so we will always crave for IT.

 

But, since we’re told the whole time that’s something that you shouldn’t be craving for, we start mixing a positive feeling with something that’s prohibited, which leads to a whole sensation of us doing something wrong that should be hidden.

 

At the end of the day, reality keeps being reality whether we choose to see IT or not, we still all have a body, we still all do the same shit. We’re just deciding to act like we didn’t.

 

In my case, I always felt ashamed of my body because it didn’t meet the standards I thought it should; but now I know better.

IT keeps me alive, IT allows me to do things I LOVE; and even when I didn’t treat IT right, IT kept me waking up every morning.

 

So for that, I’m proud of the body I have today. Because even though I wasn’t good to IT all the time, IT was surely good to ME. IT brought me to this point right now, and allowed me to feel what I feel today.

 

Why would I be anything else than forever grateful? Why would I be ashamed of IT?

 

WHY WOULD YOU?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photography: Rahul Akber