Always changing

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

If we take that statistic as fact (a risky assumption, as it was found on the internet, but for the sake of argument, we will take it as such), then every few years, we are completely regenerated. Completely different. So why do girls like me keep making the same mistakes? If I'm comlpletely changed from how I was a few years ago, why do I still find myself in the same rut? Girls like me are just unchangeable...that 2% that doesn't change? It's the same two percent every year. It's the two percent that makes us keep going back. We drink poison like water in the desert; we crave it, we relish it. Because that two percent is also our perception of ourselves. Often warped and never changing. It's those insecurities that haunt us at night and drive us back to that which hurts us most. We treat the poison like an antidote for our lack of self-confidence.

But maybe that two percent does get changed. Maybe the 98% rotates through your body, so that after time, you are reinvented. You can outgrow the insecurities. Maybe the new atoms are stronger than the old ones. Maybe that's why they get replaced.

What if sometimes, the atoms that get replaced are the ones that make all the difference? The ones that let you be completely new and cleansed. Because suddenly, I feel like those last few atoms just clicked into place. But I didn't want this blog to get personal. So this is done. It's all just...done.