To the girl who doesn’t think she’s good enough,
It’s a difficult to go through your life feeling like you’re not good enough and that you’ll never make the cut. You try to block out all the negative comments that are tossed at you, but eventually you start to believe them to be true. It hurts, and you begin to be torn down little by little until you reach the point where you feel as tiny as your level of confidence. It’s something that you shouldn’t have to go through. But you, like so many other girls including myself, experience it on a daily basis. You aren’t alone, and you have never been. There are other people going through what you’re going through. Share your story. Get advice and share advice. It helps more than you would think. In the process of being there for someone else and helping them, you help yourself along the way.
Why should you let what other people say bother you? It’s a question that I ask myself every day, but I still haven’t come up with the answer. They tell you to prove the people who tell you’re not good enough wrong. They tell you not to believe what they say, but what they don’t understand is how hard it is to let the words pass you by. You know that you shouldn’t care, but you do no matter how hard you try not to. There’s always a little part of you that cares about what other people think and say about you. So if you’re going to care, at least use it to your advantage. Laugh about it. At first it will be difficult, but it will make you feel better.
I’ve been going through this a lot quite recently dealing with my college major and my future. People have made me feel as if I can’t do what I want to by telling me it’s impossible, ridiculously hard, and that I would have to be stupid to try it. I let them get to me until a friend of mine recently told me that you can use what other people say as motivation to prove them wrong and do what they said you couldn’t. They might see you as incapable of doing things, but you can do anything that you put your mind to. The sky is the limit, so don’t let what other people keep you from doing what you want to do. It may be hard, but are you really who you want to be if you don’t try? You can’t prove them wrong if you don’t try. Go out there and work towards whatever it is you have your sights set on because when you reach that goal, nobody can say that you aren't good enough again. You've already proved them wrong and it feels good.
Love the girl who believes you are more than good enough.
