Not For Long

   I have never really being affected by Anorexia.  I did not always have control over what I ate and how much I ate.  There was a time that I couldn't eat because I always felt full, or that I was too hungry to eat.  I always made sure that I got the right nutrients to eat though.  If I couldn't eat I would drink milkshakes, so mom wouldn't be too worried.  I would pass hours on the dinning room with mom half asleep, waiting for me to finish eating my dinner.  I would get up carefully and quietly to not wake mom up, and throw my food away.  I always exercised  and participated at school activities.  As I grew older I got a more normal appetite  but once in a while I would get a bit too tired.  Now I skip a meal once in a while.  I never actually thought about how it affected my family and friends until I started reading "Skinny" by Ibi Kaslik.
   I never really went too far with starving myself.  I had the cation of people worrying about me, specially during school and in school.  I had friends at school, but we didn't really hang out.  That's one thing I can relate and connect with one of the main characters.  Giselle Vasco faced death when she starved her way through college.  She was bought home for recovery after her treatment in the hospital there wasn't anyway that she was going back to school.  I was always terrified that something like that would happened to me. What would my friends think about me?  They wouldn't understand. That's what gave me the strength to keep eating.  I knew that I needed to stop my bad habit.  I tried so hard that sometimes it was too much.  I became more aware of what my friends did and what they ate and what I ate.
   My parents started noticing that I packed lunch everyday.  The next visit I had with my doctor my weight was actually almost right to what a child my age would have.  I felt proud.  Sure, what I did and what my parents and I had to go through would hunt us until the ends of our lives, but the important part was that I had gone through it and never gave up.  I'm sure thousands of people go through this and have to deal with it and can tell that they are hurting their family.  A lot of this people don't even make it to get cured, I bet they just commit suicide.  A sum of the people who suffer of sicknesses die every day all around the world.  I am proud to say I am a fighter and a survivor.  And many others are too.  This is a battle that will last forever because it's something that every generation goes through.  I don't know if people will be able to stop Anorexia, be  it can be prevented.