With so much love, The 2023 You If you have a photo from 2015 (or any year) where you felt invisible, tired, or just labeled as "X's mom" or "Y's dad," dig it up. Look at it again. You aren't looking at a faded parent. You’re looking at a superhero in yoga pants.
October 26, 2023
So keep the messy bun. Keep the stained shorts. Keep kneeling on that rug. You aren't just "Buddy's Mom." You are his whole sky. buddy's mom2015
But looking at that photo now, eight years later, I see it differently. With so much love, The 2023 You If
I wasn’t looking for a person named Buddy. I was looking for me . You’re looking at a superhero in yoga pants
Do you ever have a random search term pop into your head late at night, one that feels like a key to a forgotten lock? That happened to me last week. I found myself typing a strange string of words into an old hard drive search bar:
Because somewhere, buried in a folder of blurry iPhone photos and video clips of a kiddie pool, is a picture of me. I wasn't looking at the camera. My hair was in a lopsided bun. I was wearing a grey nursing tank top that had seen better days and a pair of shorts with a mysterious stain on the thigh. I was kneeling on the living room rug, putting a band-aid on a scraped knee.