We are continuously being molded to think we are not good enough, from a very young age. We are seeing, hearing and learning to focus on what’s wrong with us. What we don’t like or what someone else doesn’t like. It’s even getting more extreme with social media, so these new generations don’t have a chance, especially if they are sensitive. It goes a little like this, It’s always this is wrong, bad, not good enough. I am to thin, to fat, to short, to tall, my nose is bent, to big. I don’t like my freckles or my teeth, I have stretch marks etc, etc, etc. The list is long and you can always find more because that’s what the world around us is bashing down us. Do you know You are beautiful because of the things you think, that you feel are bad and negative are actually what make you unique and you. Beautifully imperfect warts and all. We spend most of our young life dreaming and paining ourselves chasing what we are told is perfect beauty, only to realize it is a misconstrued ideal and we are beautiful just as we are and excepting, cherishing and loving the skin your in, is the very thing that is beautiful.
In spending many years not being happy with how we look because either someone or society picking out and concentrating on what are imperfections and feeling bad and sad because of them, instead of realizing they are what make you beautiful as you are. Your crooked nose, your curves, your freckles, your anything and everything. Stop wasting time worrying about being sad and unhappy about ourselves because society, meaning your classmates, neighbors, social media. magazines, television programs, movies, they all concentrate on the negatives and try and confuse us breaking down our confidence. So we spend 1/2 our life feeling bad about ourselves. Then you get to an age where you embrace all those things and they become what you love about yourself and realize they are uniqueness and you understand you are imperfectly you and oh so beautiful.
We need to be happy in our skin. We need to show our children how to nourish and cherish their mind, body and soul. How to love every inch of themselves. How to be confident, strong and compassionate. To be the most loving humans because teaching love by being a living example is empowering and that is real beauty. Being honest is the most important because if you tell they are beautiful and love everything about yourself, yet you think and say I hate my hips, my, my nose needs to go, I am fat, my curves are in the wrong places. These are the wrong messages and most women, mothers don’t even realize that is what, where and how we become critical of ourselves and pass these habits to our children. Be conscious of what you teach, what you preach and learn because it is never to late to understand, to know that your are beautiful as you are when you embrace your imperfections, have confidence and love for all of who you and how unique you are because there is only one you. One perfect you. God knows and loves you just as you are, so you should too.
Don’t waist years on such stupid things. Don’t listen to what others say, they are only jealous of your unique qualities. Cherish them, cherish everything because it’s worth it and you are worth it.
Loving life one moment at a time. Renae
Lotus Flower . Live 