I realize that I tend to jump from goal to goal, and that this is not a desirable trait in life, but.....bear with me.
I struggle, along with 90% of all women in Amercia, with my body image. Sorry, boys...this is a kind of girly one...but you may be able to benefit. This struggle is due to Victoria Secret models and their impossible proportions, Hollywood women who do not age (its not magic, its plastic surgery), and clothing designers who only design clothes meant to fit on a 6 foot tall, bulimic, 16 year olds. This puts pressure on the average, real, American woman, to somehow fit into this super model image, which is just not a reality for 99% of us.
God has made us all unique. Some of us were born with hips that refuse to fit into jeans, hair that just will not cooperate when there is the slightest humidity in the air, our grandmothers knees, skin that belongs on a greasy 14 year old's face, but is for some reason stuck on yours. Maybe you think your neck too long, or your nose is too big, or you have too many freckles, you don't have enough freckles, your hair color is ugly, your feet are grotesque, your legs look like tree trunks, your butt is all dimply, there is a muffin top bulging over your jeans, your boobs are too small or too big, your arms are flabby, blablablablaBLA!
Maybe we haven't been as healthy as we should be, maybe we haven't made the time to exercise, maybe we have given our children or our careers, or husbands or boyfriends or whatever, every bit of ourselves, and have completely let ourselves go. No matter what your life is like, I pray that you will realized just HOW important you are. I implore you to make time for yourself. Do not lose YOURSELF in your life! You are amazing and you must take care of the body God has given you. You will feel better...I will feel better... and more fulfilled.
Listen, ladies. Why are we constantly comparing ourselves to other women?? What is the point of that? Who cares how we "measure up" to these women against the shallow values of this plummeting society? God made us who we are just the way we are on purpose. Most of us are never going to fit into those size 00 jeans, which for some reason exist, and that's okay! My goal is to be MY best. Not anyone else's.
GET TO THE POINT.
Okay, basically my point is that I'm tired of feeling badly about myself. There is not point in picking apart every little detail of my body and hating every bit of it. I want to be comfortable in my own skin, not wish I was in someone else's. My goal is to be healthy. To exercise regularly. I feel better when I am healthier. But really the point is...accept yourself. Be your best you, and be thankful for what you have. Do not compare yourself. Be you. That's all.
