September 10, 2013

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Day Two Hundred and Fifty-Three:  Bodies.

Bodies aren’t perfect.  I have had a hard time accepting this during the time in which I spend looking at tumblr photo’s, Vogue magazines, and other media that depict women (and men) as these perfect, beautiful figures that have no flaws, no arks no spots no nothing.  And I look at myself, and I spot my own imperfections. My lines, marks, spots, my fat my grease my own mysterious unfairness within my own being that shows in my mirror and is emphasized to me.  The way I see it we all dislike the way we look to some extent, and sometimes we can’t help that, and that’s okay. It’s okay to feel self conscious and it’s okay to feel ugly sometimes.

It’s not okay to believe it every moment of your life.  I feel confident regardless of what I look like because if I feel good then does it really matter?  Someone told me recently that I have a “magnetic personality” and will have no trouble finding someone to spend the rest of my life with.  I understand that physical attraction to appearance is important on a simple, surface level but if I’m spending a lot of time with someone it matters more to me if they find me a wonderful, smart, funny person, not so much if I have a thigh gap or if I have perfect hair (although those things would be lovely, right?).

I think what gets to us all is that feeling good and looking good go hand in hand sometimes.  If I’m wearing a new dress I feel like a hundred bucks, but if I’m wearing sweats out of the house I don’t want to see anyone I know.  It’s all a matter of how we feel, and if you feel comfortable with who you are as a person that will shine through, it sounds cheesy but sometimes that’s how life is.

Confidence makes it, I think, in my opinion.


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