Love Yourself!!

Name 3 things right now that you absolutely LOVE!! Go on... DO it..... I'll give you a minute.....Did you do it? Come on... You did it? Great! What were your 3? Kids, husband, job, home... all great things. But I bet not one of those things was you! SMH!

Becoming a “BETTER YOU” is forced down our throats on a daily basis! As women we get images of what society considers perfect forced down our throats on a daily basis. “If you look like this you will be more successful” “Wear this and you will attract more men” Push this up, squish this down, squeeze this, poke that, lift this! It’s never ending! Honestly, I don’t think I would even know that anything was wrong with me if it wasn’t told to me on a consistent basis. Honestly despite all of that, I still am ok with who I am and how I look. Am I a little chubbier than I would like to be? Sure! But I have grown to love my thickness! I love my huge Muppet alien looking face. (It’s the left side view….. I for real have a sunken eyed alien face so I try to face forward or turn right in all pictures) If I chose lose weight or tone up, it is exactly that! MY CHOICE!! No one is going to force me to be their idea of “perfect”. It hasn’t always been like that.

When I was younger and a tad bit more naïve, I would buy into it. I remember that after I saw “Clueless” I wanted to be like Cher and Dion so badly I never wore pants because they never wore them either. I even wore sweater vests and collared shirts! It was really cute though. But It was for a very short time span. As a teen I went through so much trauma that I didn’t really care about much of anything having to do with fitting in anywhere. I didn’t want to fit it. I wanted to be left alone. Maybe that’s why I didn’t really struggle with loving myself later in life…. I really had no other choice in high school but to love myself. No one else really liked me at all. So that’s one good thing to come out of that high school drama!

We go through so much already especially as women. Our bodies change over time with kids, with our jobs with time! Things that used to point up towards the heavens are now pointing straight down into hell! LOL Things that used to be firm become wrinkled and rollie. But through all that, you are still the wonderful beautiful you. Don’t look at yourself in the mirror with disgust. Be proud of the life you have lived! The skin you’re in! You were not created to look like everyone else! What a boring world would this be if we all looked and acted the same! It’s time to stop putting yourself down and start lifting yourself up! Because you should love yourself! Not in a cocky, conceited, arrogant way. But a healthy way. You should take time to care of yourself. Be kind to yourself. Embrace the things you love about yourself! Because there is only one you! How do you do that? Well, how do you fall in love with anyone else? Time. Take time for yourself. Time to get to know yourself. Take time to pamper yourself. Take time to invest in yourself… After a while you will fall head over heels in love with someone who will never leave you…. YOU.

I’m not perfect in any way. But perfection doesn’t equal love. I love myself! Big eyes, massive forehead, Muppet face, alien head, big lips, thick thighs extra meat, huge butt and RBF!