What if I knew I was beautiful? Not because I'm told but because of what I saw when I looked in the mirror. What if one day I wake up in the morning really loving the way I looked? What would you do then? You wouldn't be able to bully me into thinking that there is something wrong with me because I clearly don't look the the girls that I see on billboards, in magazines, or on the television. Society tells me that I'm not beautiful because I don't have a gap between my thighs. Society tells me that because I've got skin as white as snow that I must not be beautiful. I hear it everyday, I hear that I'm not beautiful because I don't look like the girl that society wants me to be. You tear me down just to build me back up again by telling me that I'm beautiful just the way I am, but what if I KNEW I was beautiful? What would you do then?
New flash. I will NEVER be a suntanned blonde beauty but I'm okay with that. I know I'm beautiful and not because you tell me so. I'm beautiful because I've got one strange nose and because I don't have a gap between my thighs. I'm beautiful because I have muddy brown hair instead of blonde. I'm beautiful because I have acne. I'm beautiful because I'm me. I wake up in the morning really feeling myself because I love the way I look. I love the girl who I see looking back at me in the mirror. You see flaws but I see beauty. Why can't you see what I see? I'm not ashamed of who I am so say whatever you want because frankly I don't give a damn. I'm enough for me. So if you try to tear me down with your standards of what beauty should be then please remember that I'm so high up off the ground loving every last flaw of myself. I have a meaning and a purpose.
Why should I give a damn about what society says? Why should I go out of my way to purchase the items that you tell me "will make me beautiful?" Why shouldn't turn myself into somebody that I'm not just to be "beautiful?" Why should any girl so this? We are all beautiful in our own way. In 20 years, who's gonna care what you looked like? Who's gonna judge you on what you wore or how you looked? At the end of that day, as long as you love yourself, then that's all that matters. Society can go to hell. The standard of beauty causes so many problems and no one realizes that. Eating disorders, insecurities, self-hate. These are all issues that stem from beauty standards. While we can't avoid what society is telling us, we can fight back. I know you're beautiful, just the way you are. Flaws and all. The only this I see is beauty.
So hat would happen if I knew I was beautiful?
Let's find out
