When it comes to our appearance we can get so stuck on the little thing about ourselves. Our nose, our hair, a pimple.
We center our attention around the little things that make us feel ugly or insecure.
Why don’t we instead focus on the little things that make us feel good and beautiful?
What are the little things that you like about yourself?
I started making this list for myself and I was surprised to see how many things started appearing on it
THINGS ABOUT ME THAT I LOVE
- my hazel eyes
- my smile
- my little cheek dimple
- my rosy cheeks
- my perfectly sized ears
- my eye brows (even the crazy left one)
- my luscious thick hair
- The way my laugh sounds when something catches me off guard as hilarious
- my singing voice
- my tiny little fingers and toes
- my height
and a variety of other things that shift and change throughout the days. Some mornings I will like how my nails turned out or the way my outfit looks. I have begun the habit of calling out the obvious and the subtle beauty I see in myself instead of the imperfections. Because most mornings I forget.
I forget how beautiful my eyes look with sunlight sparkling through them.
I forget that I truly do love my rosy cheeks and my smile. I forget that my face really isn’t that bad and that there are beautiful parts of me despite my weight.
It’s also good to remember that your entire being is not defined by a small single “flawed” piece of your body.
Cake is made of baking powder, vanilla and a handful of other ingredients which are pretty gross on their own but once they are mixed together in just the right way, they come out being pretty dang delicious.
That’s what we are, our own bag of cake. We are each a unique and perfect mixture of straight deliciousness. And we can’t get caught up in each little thing because it’s not about every individual piece of us being perfect, it’s about knowing and reminding ourselves that all the beautiful, weird, and quirky pieces of us are mixed together JUST RIGHT to make us who we are.
Remember that.
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