Dare to Love you

 

There are times that I stop and look at my reflection, sometimes just in the window as passing by and I will feel beautiful it's amazing to me. It's not always when I am dressed up sometimes  it's just simple like tonight after changing into a pair of  PJs  my eye caught on my reflection in the window and I felt beautiful, short hair and all. Its like my hair was messy in the most perfect way and my skin looked all glowy and clear.

I feel that we all know the beauty we are then society puts it out there that we are not. I know for a fact that its a way to make money. They place a picture perfect person in front of us and we are told that is what beauty is. Who is the one that gets to decide what beauty is? I'm beautiful and I am not a size two, I get zits, my hair is not photo perfect,  but that's just it!! I am not a photo!  I am me! 

The sad thing is its been programmed into us since birth because it was taught to our mothers and their mothers. Yes the standards of beauty changes with the times. Heck in some ages of time it was thought a curvy plump woman was the most beautiful of all and in all actually most corsets and petticoats were made to make a woman look as if she had more curves. No I  not sitting on a high seat stating that curvy is the beauty of the world I am saying we all are! It's sickening to watch both men and women go through hell to have the so called perfect body! Some women starve them self as others are out there now embarrassed that they can not gain weight both watching the scale saying there is something wrong with them in all actuality there is something wrong with the media. With the programming we have stuck in our heads, no I am not saying lets all drop every thing and start eating junk and become couch potatoes there is good to wanting to be fit what I am saying is isn't it about time we start loving our bodies as they are right this moment? Treat them with love and also change the standards for beauty? That girl who is size 28 in pants that adores to dance and is good at it should not be treated any different than those that are slim and tall, she is healthy she is enjoying her self. She is beautiful! That girl you called a toothpick and threatened to stuff candy down her throat she is beautiful! That old woman sitting in her rocking chair barely any hair she is beautiful! You just as you are.. You are beautiful! 

Me right now just as I am ... I am beautiful. 

Take care of the body you have, treat it well, but also love your spirit and treat it well too. 

I am not saying I am cured and that for now on I will only think my self as beautiful. No I still am working on it and that is why I am working on this on going challenge if loving my body. 

I am going to love my body! Loving your body is not just about Accepting it as a beautiful thing It is also those moments when you do special things to spoil your body like an extra long bath to soak out any stuck energy or experiencing some thing new to see if it works for your body Like a remedy my dear friend told me about involving washing your hair with baking soda and vinegar ( Sounds Like a child's science project on your head! But fun)