learn to accept yourself

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I’m not saying it only matters how you feel about yourself, but learning to accept and really, to love yourself for who you are makes it easier to accept others for how they look, how they feel, and who they are. I’m not totally guiltless in making judgments about other people’s appearances, and I don’t expect us all to suddenly hold hands and go around the room telling each other how beautiful we are while don't actually mean it. However, I know that on the days I am at my highest level of confidence, I am also most accepting and appreciative of others. I believe that the way we look at ourselves will positively influence the way we look at others, and these others that are being affected by our beams of warmth will build their own positivity and so on, until everyone’s low self-esteem days are merely blips on an otherwise sun-filled radar.
This is a perfect world I am imagining, and as mentioned before, I know we are far from a perfect world, but I’ve spent way too much time untagging myself on Facebook, cropping and editing my photos before posting them at just the right ratio to know I’m done trying to manipulate the way I want others to see me. I’ve matured enough to realize there’s no point, and frankly, the years I’ve spent trying to fit into the stereotype of “beautiful” or “pretty enough” have been exhausting and I don’t have the energy anymore. The world will see me for who I am, for the best version of me I put forward, as long as I am always true to myself. If that’s not good enough for everyone else well, that’s too bad because there’s only one fact that matters: It’s good enough for me.

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