Goodbye, you three

As I release the last of the year that was 2011, I also cast these three stories into the wind:

1) Someone else's opinion is always more important than my own instinct or desire.

2) By eating when I am hungry I am bad, greedy, disobedient, fat, unloveable.

3) Saying what is deepest in my heart would hurt, upset or anger someone, and that would be the worst thing in the world.

Goodbye, my friends. We travelled closely and I know you only wanted to protect me. There seemed to be so many things to be afraid of.

So thank you.

But I am beginning to see that I really don't need you any more.

Go. Don't look back.

I don't need permission.

I don't need controlling.

I don't need protecting.

I am OK.

Go.