"Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen."
This quote comes from Ann Lamott's book, "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life"
Although I do have a goal to be less jiggly and more gigglely....I won't let my big tummy prevent me from enjoying the bahamas in a couple weeks.