Here at Scriptoeris we love to challenge what the masses think and we love redefining concepts, especially beauty.
In the past week, how many times have you looked at yourself and thought that you were beautiful? Just take a minute to think about the answer to this question. Now think about how many times you’ve looked at someone else and thought that they were beautiful. In a perfect world, the first number would be greater than the second. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world.
If you stand in front of a mirror, it’s pretty easy to start picking out all of your shortcomings; especially since we are constantly bombarded with photos of celebrities and supermodels. We are told that in order to be beautiful, we must look like these women, and if we don’t, then we need to fix ourselves so that we can fit into this definition of beautiful.
But we forget that beauty isn’t how you look. Yes, those supermodels and celebrities are tall and have fat stomachs and silly hair but can you have a conversation with their legs? Can their toned arms tell you their thoughts on foreign affairs? It’s not your appearance that defines your worth, it’s who you are on the inside. This is a cliché that you have likely heard a million times, but how many times do you listen?
Your self worth is generally tied to whether or not you feel beautiful, so you need to change the definition of the word beautiful to fit who you are. The easiest way to do this is to be happy with yourself. The rest will come to you. In fact, the word itself is telling you to just be you (beYOUtiful), much like the word imperfection says I’m Perfection. Recognize your own worth. Your self worth needs to be defined by you, not by someone else.
Your definition of the word beautiful is going to be different from the girl across the room’s definition of beautiful. Stick to your morals, stick to your values, stick to your beliefs. These things are important to you, they’re what make up you on the inside, they’re what makes you a smart girl. And none of those depends on your outer appearance.
Embrace the little quirks that you have, embrace your imperfections, because they’re what make you beautiful. They’re called quirks for a reason–no one else has them but you. Work them to your advantage. Hold onto these parts of you, and embrace them. Embrace who you are as a person. Most of the people that we think are beautiful are simply just a little more confident than the rest of us. If you can carry yourself with a little more confidence in who you are, with a little more respect for your personality, you’re going to start to notice a difference. Even if you don’t believe that you are beautiful, if you keep telling yourself that you are, or if you keep pretending that you are around other people, eventually, you’re going to start believing it yourself.