Okay, raise your hand if you knew that guy would never text me.
EVERY HAND RAISED.
But then you go on Tumblr, and you see something different. You see girls buying clothes, cutting their hair, taking laxatives, starving themselves, doing anything to make themselves look thinner. They base their self-worth on a NUMBER projected on a man-made scale. And to be honest with you, it breaks my heart. Because I know that you CAN eat without feeling guilty, you CAN eat fattening food without punishing yourself afterwards. What the scale says is NOT the most important thing. Being thin isNOT more important than being healthy. Being thin and not eating are NOT signs of true will power and success. Screw what all these pro-ana blogs tell you. You don’t have to be thin to be attractive. You are perfectly okay just the way you are.
So I was thinking maybe this time there’ll be more,
that he’ll stay, and not just walk out the door.
But it looks like it was just one night,
I’m doubtful whether guys can treat me right.
All responsibility left up to me,
it’s like I’m blind and cannot see.
Perhaps it’s me to blame, am I doing the wrong things?
Sometimes I think settling for less means no broken heart strings.
I’m no vintage goddess, thought that’s what I’d love to be,
but who would change who they are, just for society?

—from ‘Words, Wide Night’ by Carol Ann Duffy
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY