the night is good. i am sitting in my husband's sweats (which i rarely wear) (my laundry service hasn't held up their end of the deal) (it's a slight pet peeve of mine when women wear men's clothes) drinking wine and just finished watching one of my favorite TV shows on abc.com. i was just sitting on facebook and i had a lot of things i wanted to post as my status so instead i thought i would take it here.
on the show i was watching, the actors and actresses are all so beautiful physically and most of the characters are portrayed as being beautiful on the inside too. do you ever see beautiful people and it makes you want to shower, shave your legs, paint your nails, give yourself a facial, wear lots of make-up, curl your hair, put lots of jewelry on and finish with an excess amount of your favorite designer perfume? people on tv are just so perfect. even the ones that have "baggage". you know i personally admire someone who has "baggage". it's like i want to know all about it. the good. the bad. and the downright ugly. because that is what makes someone so real and so unique. i like to see fault in a person and actually it makes me quite uncomfortable when i am around an individual in which i start to gather that everything in their world lines up perfectly. it's like you are envious of the prefect, easy life they lead but on the contrary you feel bad about there lack of exposure.
the beautiful people we see on TV reminds me of so many things. i see young girls and i think to myself oh they are so young and they have got the world in the palm of their hands. and it's all about choices. i remember when i was in high school and though now i can say i was a beautiful young lady, i had a lot of things that i thought were wrong with my image. though i think it's safe to say i was a confident one, it's also safe to say that i saw many faults. my hair wasn't right, i had a tummy, my teeth weren't straight.....and now that i have reared three children i look at all my physical imperfections on my body. i look back at pictures from my younger years and think what a beautiful young girl i was. of course when i was in school the style encouraged your belly to hang out and i see many shots of my tummy exposed; smooth as silk, flat and perfectly colored from wearing a bikini in the sun.
my wish for teen girls is for them to see their beauty. not to see their beauty in such a way that their ego over exceeds it's limits but to see their real beauty. every mark on their body was carefully chosen by God. every tiny flab of skin that they see as fat serves as a layer to protect their beautiful body.
if you have daughters, or know a young woman who is growing up in this world where "thin is in" and nothing is ever good enough, tell them just how perfect and beautiful they are. do this because it is true, not because i am telling you to. take i look into their heart and see just how beautiful they are.
if only there was an app on our phones that could show us what we will look like 5, 10 or 25 years away, maybe then we would see our own beauty. sad that this is the way it is but most young girls and woman are guilty of beating themselves up and never accepting how truly beautiful they are. or maybe they are able to see it themselves but don't think that their friends, boyfriend or the rest of the world can see it.
remember that God made us all and for us to not except our image is like not trusting God.
tell the women in your life, especially the teens just how pretty they are, not just today but always.
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