You say as long as you are healthy
I have been thin and sick
So many are thin and sick
So I ask you
Why is health an indicator of worth?
Why can I not strive to be kind?
Why can I not strive to be compassionate?
Why can I not strive to be hard working?
Why must only intelligence, wealth, health, and beauty be indicators of worth?
When frequently, those are things that cannot be changed?
I have tried to harm my body so it would not be called beautiful.
I have tried to harm my mind so no one would be jealous that I am smart.
I have lost my health. I have refused evils that would bring wealth.
But I have been called things I could not control – did nothing to earn – both in malice and in compliments – a thousandfold more, than things I strived so hard to be.
Laughs and Lobotomies 