There is more than 1 kind of beautiful!
Hello you lovely lot! It's been a while since I've posted anything! I hope you are all doing well and that you are feeling the Christmas spirit already. I'm sorry that I've been away longer than usual but I hope this post makes up for it!
To be honest, the reason I haven't been on here in a while is because I've been trying to figure out a lot of things recently, and I know you guys have periods like this in your life. So if you're going through a tricky patch at the moment, or maybe you're as chill as the air outside, I hope I can help distract you and lift you up, even if it's just a little bit.
Being a young person in a heavily populated city, I definitely feel pressured by society; to look a certain way, be interested in a certain hobby or media outlet, and sometimes it's not even from society general, but from people closer to home. I guarantee that when I see a group of friends or my family talk about or get excited over a certain social event or iPhone update, I feel a feeling of wanting to join in, followed by a sinking feeling, knowing that no matter how hard you try, you'll never be a part of that circle. And if you feel that also, that's completely normal; I guess FOMO (fear of missing out, apparently!) is a well established phenomenon. But what if instead of an event, it's a person, and instead of wanting to join in, you want to be that person, but then you sink down. Because you feel like that person has something you don't, and no matter how hard you try, you will never be that person. It's probably one of the most dangerous and self-destructive mindsets to have, and I fall victim to this more often than not.
In a way; yes, you will never be that person. But that's not a bad thing at all, because you are your own person and that's the greatest gift of all. I know, I cringed at how cheesy that line is too. Seriously though, does anyone want hundreds of the same thing, over and over again? I love a black cross-body handbag as much as the next person, but what am I going to do with a tonne of them? Wearing a Kurt Geiger accessory over my pelvis isn't exactly a good replacement for underwear! It's the same with people; Kim Kardashian is cool but what are we going to do with several of them? We'd never get squeeze through them all to make the bus on time!
What I'm trying to say is that as cliche and weird as it sounds, we are all different and quirky in our own ways, and that's what makes life so interesting and colourful. And just because we aren't a certain or "mainstream" beautiful doesn't mean we aren't beautiful at all; we are just as beautiful as anyone else out there; that's not a negative, it's a flipping huge positive! Short, tall, feisty, quiet, curvy, dreadlocks, highlights, blonde, multi-coloured hair, Haribo eggs instead of eyebrows = BEAUTIFUL, ALL OF IT. Please never forget that. No matter how dark those thoughts are, no matter how grey it is in your mind, there is always light, and that light is you. Every single little part of you.
I hope this makes sense, and more importantly, I hope you finish this post feeling more confident and beautiful in the amazing skin you are in, even if it's just a little bit. For a seed of thought is just the beginning.
Take care and sending you all my love,
Em x
To be honest, the reason I haven't been on here in a while is because I've been trying to figure out a lot of things recently, and I know you guys have periods like this in your life. So if you're going through a tricky patch at the moment, or maybe you're as chill as the air outside, I hope I can help distract you and lift you up, even if it's just a little bit.
Being a young person in a heavily populated city, I definitely feel pressured by society; to look a certain way, be interested in a certain hobby or media outlet, and sometimes it's not even from society general, but from people closer to home. I guarantee that when I see a group of friends or my family talk about or get excited over a certain social event or iPhone update, I feel a feeling of wanting to join in, followed by a sinking feeling, knowing that no matter how hard you try, you'll never be a part of that circle. And if you feel that also, that's completely normal; I guess FOMO (fear of missing out, apparently!) is a well established phenomenon. But what if instead of an event, it's a person, and instead of wanting to join in, you want to be that person, but then you sink down. Because you feel like that person has something you don't, and no matter how hard you try, you will never be that person. It's probably one of the most dangerous and self-destructive mindsets to have, and I fall victim to this more often than not.
In a way; yes, you will never be that person. But that's not a bad thing at all, because you are your own person and that's the greatest gift of all. I know, I cringed at how cheesy that line is too. Seriously though, does anyone want hundreds of the same thing, over and over again? I love a black cross-body handbag as much as the next person, but what am I going to do with a tonne of them? Wearing a Kurt Geiger accessory over my pelvis isn't exactly a good replacement for underwear! It's the same with people; Kim Kardashian is cool but what are we going to do with several of them? We'd never get squeeze through them all to make the bus on time!
What I'm trying to say is that as cliche and weird as it sounds, we are all different and quirky in our own ways, and that's what makes life so interesting and colourful. And just because we aren't a certain or "mainstream" beautiful doesn't mean we aren't beautiful at all; we are just as beautiful as anyone else out there; that's not a negative, it's a flipping huge positive! Short, tall, feisty, quiet, curvy, dreadlocks, highlights, blonde, multi-coloured hair, Haribo eggs instead of eyebrows = BEAUTIFUL, ALL OF IT. Please never forget that. No matter how dark those thoughts are, no matter how grey it is in your mind, there is always light, and that light is you. Every single little part of you.
I hope this makes sense, and more importantly, I hope you finish this post feeling more confident and beautiful in the amazing skin you are in, even if it's just a little bit. For a seed of thought is just the beginning.
Take care and sending you all my love,
Em x
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