Why is it that more than half my female friends hate their bodies?
Perfectly muscular, uniquely fragile, or utterly stunning,
they all hate their bodies.
I am a culprit at times as well.
Can we please start a revolution?
Can we start loving ourselves, just the way we were created?
Can we look at ourselves in the mirror and see the strength
that has been given to us, as women?
We are mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers, friends, brokers,
bankers, teachers, firefighters, lawyers, thinkers, philosophers,
politicians, doctors, cooks....
We are beautiful and we need to love ourselves!
Including the love handles, including the stretch marks, including
the not-so-shiny hair, including the ultra-long legs, including the small
breasts,
Including all our imperfections.
And most importantly the imperfections that society and oversexed magazines
and all the noise around us have dumped on us.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH, REALLY!
Can we please start a revolution?
Perfectly muscular, uniquely fragile, or utterly stunning,
they all hate their bodies.
I am a culprit at times as well.
Can we please start a revolution?
Can we start loving ourselves, just the way we were created?
Can we look at ourselves in the mirror and see the strength
that has been given to us, as women?
We are mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers, friends, brokers,
bankers, teachers, firefighters, lawyers, thinkers, philosophers,
politicians, doctors, cooks....
We are beautiful and we need to love ourselves!
Including the love handles, including the stretch marks, including
the not-so-shiny hair, including the ultra-long legs, including the small
breasts,
Including all our imperfections.
And most importantly the imperfections that society and oversexed magazines
and all the noise around us have dumped on us.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH, REALLY!
Can we please start a revolution?
3 comments:
Amen, sister!!! Seriously, though, your hair is SUPER shiny!!! lol...
thanks Zinho! haha.
Ahh... the body image issue. Sadly, I have seen many extremely bright, talented young women fall into the trap of judging themselves against a false standard of "perfection" - what is the remedy?
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