Flight
#PrideOnThePage - Day 26
This is day 26 of my participation in the creative challenge found at:
26. Flight
For most of my life I have done my best to avoid looking in mirrors and trying to prevent photos of me being taken. I did not identify with the person I saw in the mirror. As I started on HRT at the age of 60 I did not expect that much change - especially not in my face. To my surprise my body reacted quickly to the new hormones, and different parts of my body started to change in the direction of the inner picture I had of myself.
About one year after I started on HRT I passed the mirror in my bathroom and without thinking said “Hi girl” at the figure in the mirror. I stopped and looked closer - I could see that my face was beginning to get more feminine features.
Suddenly being able to look at my face in the mirror and beginning to see someone I could recognise as myself sent a wave of energy through my body. I felt the weight that I had been carrying for four decades beginning to lift.
Bo Ea
Bo Ea—“Hi girl”—you spoke it, and everything aligned. That mirror held more than a reflection, it held truth already lived. Your words carry calm clarity, a steady unfolding. I felt how your body welcomed the shift, how your face began to echo your inner knowing. You shaped that moment with such ease, and I felt its warmth reach far beyond the glass.