I threw away the underwear that always made me feel bad

Dear Delyara, Too tight in the wrong place, slightly old, the kind of thing you keep because it still technically does the job even though it quietly lowers the tone of your relationship with your own body every time you put it on. I have so many little compromises like that with myself. This week I got tired of one of them. I threw it away. That felt bigger than it should have, because it wasn’t about fabric. It was about refusing the low-grade message that I should continue tolerating things that diminish my comfort just because no one else sees them. I see them. That should be enough.