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A Stoic Body

You did not make your body nor did you design it.  Your body was given to you.  The shape or form of your body does not determine who you are, that is up to you.  With regard to your body, you usually play the role of caretaker for it.  Some will honor you because of the body that you possess, some will dishonor you.   What other people do is their own concern.  Just as what you do is your own concern. 
 
You have limited influence over how people react to your body.
You have strong influence over what you choose do about their reactions to your body. 
 
The moment between what you feel and what you do is the moment of choice.  You may feel hurt or joy at the actions of others.  You do not control that step.  You control the next step. You control what you do with that hurt or joy.  Do you take the hurt and try to generate more hurt?
 
You can find value in honoring the hurt you feel, being with it, and respecting it as a companion, but there is little value in blindly and thoughtlessly seeking to add more hurt to this world just because you feel it.  Don’t throw away the power in that moment of choice, Use It. 
 
Use the power in that moment to decide what you will become as a human being.  Use it to create yourself anew in that moment.  Use it to free yourself from the past and call forth the best in you.
 
When the time is right you can even use that moment of choice to serve something greater than yourself. If you do that then you can begin to discover more and more about who you really are.  You may discover that you are much more than your body.