{a better kind of beautiful}
Dear girls,
Stop it.
Stop despising the way you look. Stop critiquing everything about yourself. Stop looking in the mirror only to cringe and tell yourself that you aren't good enough, aren't thin enough, aren't beautiful enough.
Stop wasting time beating yourself up because you don't meet the standards this world pushes us to meet.
This world tells us that we must look and act a certain way. It not only fills our eyes and minds with the picture perfect model-like figure and face, but it tells us what we can do to alter ourselves in order to achieve it. We have to wear certain clothes, do our makeup in an all out kind of way, color our hair, pluck our eyebrows, lose weight, gain weight...all to be "acceptable", all to be "beautiful".
But the focus is wrong. The focus is wrong, the goal is wrong, the standard is wrong...the result is worthless.
Ladies listen: I'm not here to tell you that you're beautiful just the wa...