Maybe

No matter what anyone else thinks, there are some things we need to feel like our most authentic selves, to feel strong and happy and known and seen.  While there may be other people--or whole factions of other people--who think the things you want and need are ridiculous or unimportant, they don't walk around in your head, they don't live your life, they don't feel what you feel.

Maybe you need to eat McDonalds breakfast every day for a month after a good friend moves away because you used to do that together and you need the ritual to help you stop missing them so much.  Maybe you need an hour alone after work to decompress--no tv, no conversation, nothing--just to let go of what happened at your job that day.  Maybe you need to stop counting calories and worrying about what you eat because doing so makes you nuts, so instead you just listen to the cues your body sends you, you work out when you want, eat what you want when you want, and embrace who you are regardless of weight or size.

And maybe you need a relationship with someone that no one else understands.  Maybe you need to talk to that shrew of a woman you work with whose voice makes you want to eat glass simply because she reminds you to live happy now so that you don't end up just like her.  Or maybe you need to be friends with your ex-husband because he is a good man who makes you laugh and helps you through bad nights and loves you still, despite the end of your marriage.

No matter what your 'maybe' is, be brutally honest with yourself.  This is your one and only life, and if you are doing something or not doing something because of what other people think you should or shouldn't do, find a quiet place or a good friend and work out what YOU want, what YOU need.  In the words of George Eliot, "it's never too late to be what you might have been," and it's never too soon to start living the life you were meant to live.