Embracing Our Beauty-
Part I
Hi LADIES. This post is for you/us. Us women we are so good at pushing our limits and working a little harder . And sometimes we push ourselves a little too hard. Who are we really trying to please? Others or ourselves. I have a feeling no matter how much others tell us we are beautiful we wont really believe it until we ourselves accept it and embrace the beauty that is personal to who we are.
I've been noticing lately the popularity of fitness blogs which I think are useful to a certain extent. It's great to share with each other how we can stay in good shape and eat healthy but most often it seems to be pushing the point of obsessive, and it seems that acceptance of oneself is definitely lacking. Unless you consider statements like "I went from 150 to 125 pounds and I look great" self acceptance. Now I know I can't categorize all fitness blogs because that just wouldn't be accurate but I see that the majority of the women are striving for a the status of "Perfect" when it comes to their bodies. It just makes me tired...and sad. Partly because I too sometimes fall into the trap of being overly critical of my body. But the older I get and the more I reflect the more I realize that I don't want to be spending the rest of my life seeking for something that doesn't even exist. Now you could say that if I wanted to I could be a size 2 I could be. But what I'm saying is that being a size 2 will never bring utopia to my life, it will never allow me to enjoy the color of the blue sky or be content with my efforts at the guitar or help me to achieve greater patience in my interactions with others. All of the things I really want in life are not found in looking perfect. So then why do I convince myself they are? Why do YOU convince yourself they are?
On that note there is a quote by J.K.Rowling that I love that says:
“I’ve got daughters who will have to make there way in this skinny obsessed world and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty headed, self obsessed emaciated clones, I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny-a thousand things, before ‘thin.’”
