Learn to like the way your hair is naturally curly, because it is fun and like no other. Learn to like the way your hair is pin straight, because there are those who spend half an hour every morning trying to get their hair to look like yours. Learn to like the way you barely clear 5 feet because you can fit in someone’s arms that much easier. Learn to like the way you tower over people because you will never go unnoticed. Learn to like the way that you fall, because it gives you an opportunity to get back up. Learn to love the way you are scarred because it is proof you may not have won the battle, but you are here, and you have won that war. Maybe if we learn to love these things, we will be able to learn to love ourselves, instead of relying on others to love us. Too many people these days look for themselves in other people. We are all searching for where we belong, but do not mistake a person for a place. You do not belong with someone, you belong somewhere. And absolutely under no circumstances do you ever belong to someone. We are all looking for structure, a roof over our hearts, and a place to store our insecurities. I want to tell you that you are the only structure you need. Your skin and bones are where you truly reside and nothing on the outside will ever change that. You have been made specifically to contain all of your individual quirks, and qualities as well as your imperfections and insecurities. Your own skeleton is all the structure you need. And I truly do understand that there are words that cannot be forgotten. They will settle on your skin like acid, and you have no choice but to wear the remaining marks. No, we cannot forget them. I know, I’ve tried. But we can choose to not believe them. We can choose to believe they are wrong.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:58:03 +0000