Reconnection
I woke up one morning and I was fat. Some might argue and say that I was slowly gaining weight and should realize that it is impossible to wake up one morning and be fat. They might be right for the scientific facts of the body, however I am speaking to the mind. Perception is your reality. My perception was in a permanent schism. In words anyone can read, yet not necessarily completely understand, my mind, body, and soul were separated. They did not get along and decided to take up separate residences even though they are designed to all live under one roof. Repeated traumas permanently separated them so that I could not 'feel' my body except for extreme feelings of pain or pleasure...and until recently never pleasure. So I lived in a world of extreme pain mentally, physically, and soulfully, but never at the same time. They took turns terrorizing me with times of dormancy, a state of nothingness when my Psyche, the kid caught in the middle, couldn't handle it anymore an...