You stare in the mirror trying to figure out why you aren’t beautiful. But, I can let you in on the answer. You are beautiful, and if you keep denying it, then you are going to spend your whole life looking into that mirror.
The mirror only shows your outer appearance… the shell. It has nothing to do with who you are as a person. Of course, it’s good to maintain a good outer appearance with clean hygiene, but it doesn’t mean that you have to feel the need to put on the make-up or go workout every day of the week. By all means, if that makes you feel confident, and on top of the world, I say go for it, but it doesn’t mean that your bare-face and natural body, isn’t just as beautiful. Because it is. The truth is, the exterior has nothing compared to the inside of your heart.
You see, you are beautiful. When people look at you, they see the light shining so brightly out of your heart; they see the way that your eyes crinkle perfectly at the corners when your smile widens from ear to ear because you find something genuinely funny; they see the tender love that you share with everyone surrounding you. Beauty, as much as today’s society says, is not defined by the number on your jeans, the makeup that you wear, how perfectly curled your hair is, or the space between your thighs.
People can’t see the warmth of your heart, but they can feel it. Your intelligence doesn’t reside in the waistband of your skirt. Your kindness doesn’t radiate from the color of your hair. People can’t just take one look at you and say what is beautiful about you. There is more than one thing, and it’s different from everybody else.
We should think of our beauty like a beautiful painting. A beautiful work of art is more than just a beautiful work of art that is meant to match the colors of the room perfectly. It has depth; it has substance; it has something that makes you stop and think. You want to know the meaning behind the image or the ideas that were meant to be portrayed. We must remember that its beauty, just like our own, is not meant to be taken at one, first glance.
On the days that you tell yourself that you’re anything but beautiful, on the days that you can’t find one good thing that you love about yourself, or on the days that you find yourself wishing that there was a space between your thighs or you were wearing a size zero skirt, remind yourself that true beauty is not found in those things. It’s not even close. Your real beauty is somewhere else, somewhere a little bit deeper. And, well, maybe that’s why you can’t always seem to find it. The outer shell is only there to protect the true treasure that lies within you.
