SELF-LOVE

Let’s stop editing our lives for others and start living them for ourselves.

Self-love. A concept that is thrown around so much these days. Society says we, especially women, need to love ourselves before anyone else will. I agree with that sentiment to its fullest meaning, but I find it contradictory to what society’s expectations are. Today, with social media especially, it is almost required that we look a certain way or post a certain way to give off a message about “who we are.”

This leads to people, myself included, feeling like they have to edit their pictures to look “flawless” or make themselves look skinnier or more picture perfect than they really are. When are we going to stop letting society make us feel bad about the way we look? It is the age of FaceTune and VSCO filters that can transform pictures and people to look completely different with the click of a button. The thought of posting a picture that isn’t edited in some way is unfathomable to most. Posting a picture without a filter? Without whitening your teeth? Without smoothing your skin? Without shrinking your waist? Yeah right.

That is the mindset that so many people have these days because social media and the “picture perfect life” is thrown at their face on a daily basis. The mindset is that if the picture isn’t perfect, then they aren’t perfect. Screw “perfect.” Who determines what is and what isn’t picture perfect or what deserves 400+ likes vs what doesn’t. No one. No one should get the ability to tear anyone down or make anyone feel like they need to distort their bodies to please people. Everyone is beautiful in their own, unique way and that is what society should be preaching.

Self-love. How amazing it would be if everyone knew that they were truly beautiful no matter what society thinks is “beautiful.” Well you are. Everyone reading this is beautiful and shouldn’t feel in any way inferior to anyone else. Let’s start living our lives without caring what everyone else thinks. Let’s stop editing our lives for others and start living our lives for ourselves. You already know what I’m going to leave you with. Always be kind.

XOXO,

Simply Complicated