♕ The Ugly Princess ♕

The short tale of self-love, inner-beauty, and finding happiness.

I wrote this story when I was 9 years old and had forgotten about it. At 15 years of age I found it one day when I was cleaning my room. I read it and cried as it had really touched my heart.

The theme of the story is self-love, and the shocking part was that at 9 years when I wrote it, I did not know what self-love felt like; I did not know what self-love was.

I had been abused, rejected, criticized, judged. The worst part was that I took it all to heart.

At 9 years of age I managed to write a story I did not even understand.

I remember how one day the words to my story flooded my thoughts. I ran to get paper and wrote it down. I did not understand the meaning of what I had written. If only I had realized that I had written a story about self-discovery and loving oneself, a fairy tale that applied to real life. If only I had applied the lessons in the story to my own life.