What Does Beauty Mean To Me?

Beauty. To me beauty is something that so many try to achieve. There is this false sense of what beauty is today. So many young girls strive to be exactly what they see on the cover of the magazines and the so called role models in today's entertainment industry. I used to be the same way. Striving to pretend to be someone I wasn't...struggling to fit in...struggling to figure out who I was. I mean we can all relate in some way right?

I grew up definitely NOT feeling beautiful. I felt like I wanted to be beautiful, if I was...maybe I'd be POPULAR. I tried so hard to fit in with those popular girls. I literally would do ANYTHING to be one of those girls. To feel loved, wanted, important. I pretended to be just like them. Tried to dress like them, act like them, always seeking their acceptance.

I am not going to sit here and say its because that is the vision that people made, like the media and the magazines, I am not going to say it was because of those so called mean girls. It was because I was just NOT that person. I could not find ME. I did not have that power, that inner confidence. THAT is BEAUTY. THAT is what I was striving for. I wanted that confidence to just ;be me, I wanted the confidence to FEEL beautiful. That is beauty...confidence is beauty.

But that is NOT all that beauty is. Sometimes the MOST confident people are the most ugly. People who want to tear people down, people who belittle others, people who are OVER confident or should I say people who actually just pretend to have that confidence. Because these people are plain ugly. They feel insecure in themselves so raise themselves up to some status that doesn't exist and everyone else mere ants below them. I feel bad for them. They are ugly through and through. Not to say that it cannot be changed...anyone can change. We will talk more about that in depth later in another blog post, but at the moment they are HIDEOUS. So what is beauty? What does beauty mean to me? It is having confidence in who you are. It is not tearing others down, but instead lifting them up. It is being a good friend and human being. It is helping others in need. It is living life on your terms and working for what you want while having an attitude of service towards all those you come across in life. Beauty is having compassion and empathy. Beauty is being able to not look down on others who don't live the same life as you, but loving people no matter what and without judgement. Beauty is not complaining about the obstacles that you face, but instead using them to fuel the ambition and seeing the beauty in even the worst of situations. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Beauty is not perfect hair and makeup. Beauty is YOU.

Go out there and be BEAUTIFUL.

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