she's got legs

i have always liked my legs. even when the scale is tipping towards the "walrus" end of the spectrum, i have always always had lovely narrow legs. in jr. high that meant i looked sometimes like a DQ dilly bar. but for someone with long time body image issues, it's sure nice to have one part that i just love.

i like my legs primarily because they are the one part of my body i have never really had to fret over or poke dispairingly or squeeze dispondently when i want to decide about having that brownie. they are strong and muscular and well-shaped. all the way up. i only just saw the first creepings of the dreaded cellulite at their very tops last year, which i think it pretty damn good for 30ish.

anyway.

sometimes i start to wonder whether i am just particularly besotted with my stems because they are mine. then i have a reminder like last night that they ARE remarkable, even bafflingly so. i have, on occasion, gotten compliments on my legs from friends or random strangers. typically this is in a deliciously envious complimentary situation (i.e. - "i would wear skirts all the time too if i had your legs" from a sales girl or something). but last night i was walking home from my first ever work-team softball game in my shorty work out shorts and a guy in a car actually sped up to me and then leaned out of his window to scream "YO! NICE LEGS!".

a gratifying affirmation. i screamed "THANK YOU!" after him as he sped off.

does anyone else ever start to fear that if they truly start to admire something about themselves, it will certainly be taken away? as in "i better not really get prideful or too happy about my legs, or God will obviously strike me with some sort of disease/accident/leg mangling marathon injury to keep me in check". i know that God doesn't work that way. but still. i get nervous sometimes.

but if these little babies can get me across the marathon finish line in one piece without major incident, i will love them even more. join my in prayer for humility about my actually kick-ass and practically perfect legs. honestly, the only way i could like them more is if they were longer and tanner.