Not With a Bang, But a Whisper

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

This is the final stanza from T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Hollow Men, and it has long been a favorite poem of mine.  I’ve been reading Eliot’s poetry since I was about nine years old, so he’s been there through some of my toughest times.

Because this stanza has always been very powerful to me (and obviously, many others), I wanted to have something similar for my weight loss blog. 

But I have no intention of whimpering, unless it’s from exhaustion.  I felt that “whisper” was more appropriate because I’m not hooting and hollering about my weight loss to my family and friends (although, they know about it).  I’m not trying to have the support of every acquaintance I know.  I’m trying to do my own thing, whispering encouragement to myself the whole way, even when things get hard.