=If the body is a cheap suitcase, as Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge said, as did the Gnostics before her, I was also given the wrong suitcase for my journey here on earth. Is that why I've always felt so uncomfortable in my body, so "not-at-home" in this world? Because I've been traveling with someone else's luggage?=
We all have baggage, we have to choose which ones we carry and which ones we can leave behind
ReplyDeleteWell thats true GW3n & good practical advice. But what I'm getting at here is that for many transgender people, the body itself is the baggage & except for suicide there is no way to just leave it behind. For me, hormone replacement therapy has helped me to "customize the luggage" enough to make it bearable. But long years of carrying the wrong luggage has most definitely wreaked its irreparable havoc. Im quite twisted as a consequence, not that you'd necessarily notice from the outside. Still, I've had the incredible good fortune not to have ended up entirely crippled & I can happily say that I somehow managed to get where I needed to go in my life.
ReplyDeleteOf course, we all have our crosses to bear and mine has hardly been the heaviest. This being my blog, though, I feel entirely justified in making a big stinking dramatic deal of my own personal Golgotha ;o