I’ve come to learn that the loudest with their negative thoughts about other people’s appearances, are some of the most insecure. You will never see someone genuinely happy with their body, telling someone else what they should “fix” about theirs. For years, I let those loud people determine how I felt about my body. I believed that when they told me that I I#was fat, it meant I was ugly. I believed that my acne made me dirty and gross, I cried over their words and I made a home there. Because I felt “beauty” wasn’t meant for me. But that wasn’t the truth. Hurt people, hurt people. That’s true. I hear how people talk negatively about other peoples bodies so comfortably and wonder, who hurt you? What are you trying to prove by shutting down someone else’s confidence? Someone else’s confidence will NEVER bother a confident person. There’s a lot of people who would argue that and say “acne scars are just ugly” - but why though? Why are you so upset that someone is at peace with their body in every step of their journey? No one else can define for you, how you feel about yourself. We don’t get to define beauty for other people, and they don’t get to define it for us. If no one’s ever told you: there is no one definition of beauty. That’s why it’s constantly changing from time period to time period and culture to culture. We can’t even keep up with changing beauty standards today - that should tell us something. Pretty convenient that it’s acceptable to be striving for anything, but simply being who we are. To be human - imperfect, to have a body that will grow old and change with time - that alone is so damn beautiful. Life is just too short and too much of a gift, to waste it letting everyone else but you, define your relationship with yourself. Comment 🦋 if you’re with me.