April 8, 2016

I Think You're Looking At The Wrong Scale

Do you look at the scale every day…Every week? What does it tell you? It tells you you’re fat, doesn’t it? It tells you you’re not good enough- yet. Maybe that’s just my scale.

You try to better yourself but every time you look at the scale, you don’t see what you want. Sure, every once in a while there’s a little something to make you smile. But mostly, you step up, you look down, and you’re disappointed. Some days you don’t use the scale because you’re disappointed in yourself from the night before. Other times you don’t use it because you know it’s mad at you. Sometimes, you place too much value on what that scale reads.

I think you’re looking at the wrong scale.

I don’t mean you should go buy a better scale. Sure, the doctor’s scale is different than your urine splattered bathroom scale, but they’re basically the same. You can have a Carny tell you the same thing at the local fair,

“Uhh, lemme guess your weight, buddy…You look, um… You look like 150 pizzas, I guess 300 pounds.”

You can slip yourself on the dog scale at the veterinarian when nobody’s looking or you can grab the meat hook and hang while the butcher pulls out your chub (look it up, it’s not what you think). Lots of ways to weigh.

But I think you’re looking at the wrong scale.

I get all those same things when I look down at the scale. I get all those things when I look down. We all get down when we look down.

Next morning, try a different scale. Try that scale that hangs above your bathroom sink. Look up. Look up at that scale and see what you think.

That’s the important scale. That’s the scale that weighs your smile and shows lines of happiness on your face and around your eyes. That’s a scale you look up to. That’s looking up.

That scale shows the whole you (except the back part, and for most of us we don’t need to know what’s back there). That’s not a number looking back at you. That’s the face that people see when they run into you at the store. That’s the look they remember when you wave good-bye. That’s the smile and eyes and happiness that is important to them.

Good people aren’t looking down at your weight, they aren’t looking down at a scale, they aren’t looking down at all. Skip the scale that’s beneath your feet. Skip the scale that’s beneath you. Look up to the scale that shows your beauty, your worthiness, your you.


Weigh yourself in happiness. If you’re lucky, you’re fat like me.

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