Recently I have been addicted to the song "Pretty Girl Rock" by Keri Hilson. I would recommend it, if you like R&B/Pop.
Anyways, at first listen, this song may seem like it's about some stuck up lady who thinks that everything is about her and that she is pretty and everyone else is just "hatin'." However, if you listen to the song a little more closely, at one point in the lyrics she says, "I know that I'm pretty, and if you know it too, then ladies sing it with me." Now, this can be taken as a sort of mean lyric, but what she means is that we must learn to love ourselves for all that we are, and we can't beat ourselves up over things we came into this world with. I hate to use the now oh so cliched line from Lady Gaga, but "baby you were born this way."
Now, I'm not saying that we should all wake up in the morning every day and feel like a million dollars. Not at all. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like my hair is a mess, I look terrible, and I'm in a hurry and I'll never look good in time. In other words, I feel like a piece of junk. However, do I go out into this world with this feeling that I am junk? No, that's not what we have to do. We have to go out into the world feeling like we could be put on that "Antiques Roadshow" TV show and learn that we are worth one million dollars. We can't look at ourselves as junk.
So, you've got your mindset ready about being this amazing treasure and you are headed out to hang out with some friends to do some fun stuff. Then, you and your friends are strolling along in the mall and looking around at whatever you wish to purchase that fine day, and then, like on cue, you are bombarded by the "Mainstream" idea of beauty. You see half naked men in Abercrombie and thin striking women posing in the Hollister ads, and you start to feel down. You look down at your body and wish it were like that, and then the self-hate starts to rise up. Ultimately, you lose this sense of self-worth as the day goes on and you get right back to where you started from when you woke up.
I haven't been safe from this treatment, and I know that this isn't something you can get over in like a day or two. This sense of self-love has to come over time, or else you'll never be able to walk by those stores without feeling ugly. This is a process.
Now, person reading this: I want you to read and listen, (not physically, unless you are reading out loud), to what I am going to tell you. Now listen good.
You are beautiful. You are special and there is someone in this world that would be worse off without you in this world. You light up someone's life in this world, and if you don't believe me, (which I can understand if you don't), talk to one of your closest friends. They'll tell you. Don't feel ugly. You have every right in this world to feel comfortable in who you are, so don't let those haters bring you down.
I personally think those Abercrombie and Hollister models are stuck up and prude, whilst your personality is a thousand times better than theirs could ever be.
In this world, vanity may be great and all, but if we don't look what's inside of the book, read reviews, and figure out what it's all about, we may truly be "judging books by their covers." So, the next time you see a tattered, warn out book, make sure you pick it up and give it a read. I'm sure it just might be one of the best books you've ever read.
~This is Deej, signing off.
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