You’re Beautiful!

Yes you! The one reading this or not, you’re beautiful. Affirm yourself. Around four years ago, I was this shy girl, in her early twenties, cherishing the outer beauty over the inner. I remember how I felt that I was not beautiful enough and that led me to stay from the limelight. I stayed secluded not wanting to be noticed and thus painted my life with a hint of introvertedness. I drew limits to my horizons of exploring myself. I would draw my attention on the body shaming comments people passed on my thin body, although no body type fits an ideal perception into the brains of the society. You’re either thin, fat, short, tall, flat, curvy, etc. but you’re definitely devoid of something. It is crazy and good how concerned we are about our looks, until it turns to measurements.

We have to make ourselves understand about how lovely and magical the apparatus handed over to us is. The ideology of how beautifully, we beings are designed, each one distinct and unique. How much we are capable of performing, thinking, perceiving, witnessing and the very fact how this apparatus is magically working with its involuntary actions like breathing and other bodily functions. Well, I needed someone to show me or tell me, how beautiful I was in my own way. In my case, it was some of my friends, and later the gratitude app. I needed to understand how differently I was designed but yet so beautiful. I started seeing myself differently and began to love this gift.

I began to build in me the missing conviction and beam more with gratitude for myself and my surroundings. I began caring less about the meek perceptions of others about how I was something less than the ideal, and affirming in me that I was just as enough for myself. I was more happy to see the outcome, it devoured the entire concept of seeking the idealness. We’re imperfectly perfect, each with different configuration, yet so beautiful. I loved the way I was and hence the journey of self love began, not completely, just the budding, but yet again, a beautiful one.

To sum up the entire process, it began by shunning the ideology of being ideal and began the trail of journaling conjugated with affirmations. I was lucky to ensemble them using the app I mentioned above, The Gratitude app for Journaling. The journey has also led me to knowing the importance of compassion and empathy. And I want to pass it on to you, you need to realise that you’re magical, and hence so beautiful!