Beauty IQ

Because beauty is brain deep, it's not just what you see but what you think and feel.

[beautyisbraindeep]

Educate yourself, please.

Girl 1: Yeah, I heard they found her in the closet.

Girl 2: I mean who decides to get a month into college and then decides that they just can't handle it?

Girl 3: Well, I heard she was drunk anyways.

Today as I was walking to my car this is the conversation I heard in the elevator in regards to a student that committed suicide at my college. Yes suicide, not just like she passed out, or did something stupid at a party, but this girl felt like she had no other option in life but to end hers, and this is how these girls talked about her.

All day I have been thinking about it, how could people be so fucking ignorant that they think that saying this is okay? At the time I really wanted to say something to them but I knew I would lose my temper and wasn't feeling like yelling would get my point across too well. But seriously, how does someone think that talking about a human being like that okay? I mean this was a conversation they were having in a damn elevator with another girl and myself in it, it wasn't a private conversation.

Did they really think that her taking her life was just because some test or paper fucking stressed her out?

Do they not know they suicide almost always happens with someone who has a pre-existing mental condition, usually depression that distorts how they view life?

Do they not know how much it fucking sucks to lose someone to suicide?

Did the thought ever cross their mind that they sounded like ignorant assholes who have no clue how have empathy. Literally not once did they seem concerned about the pain this girl, her family, her friends, those who talked to her a few times in the community dorms, were going to feel.

So my challenge to people is to go do your research about suicide, the facts are startling and eye opening and it is a subject that people need to start having meaningful conversations about.

Also, don't be those assholes who open their mouths and spew nasty word vomit, projectile word vomit, onto people you don't even know just because you have an opinion. Just think.

My last thing in this tangent, if you are reading this and struggling with anything in life and feel like giving up don't, just don't. You are beautiful, and you are loved. You may think no one would care, but they would, I would, and I don't even know you. I would be fucking heart broken and I have never met you, that is how fucking amazing and beautiful you are. So please, stick around because the world needs you. There is always help and there is nothing wrong with getting help. Love each other more, and better, and stop being so goddamn mean to each other. Everyone deserves to feel loved.

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[beautyisbraindeep]

So blessed to be able to say I have this, and as should everybody else. You deserve it, never let yourself believe otherwise.

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[beautyisbraindeep]

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

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But not everyone can see it.. .

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[beautyisbraindeep]

Sticks and Stones break bones, but Words do so much more.

In order for women to build themselves up we all need to stop tearing each other down.

No, by no means am I saying lets all form one gigantic circle and hold hands and sing “Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera (not going to lie though, that sounds a little fun…I mean funny, funny, yeah…). What I am saying though is next time you see that girl walk by who has shorts on and has legs that are larger than a size 2 don’t criticize her and say she is fat or people like that should just never wear shorts.

No, next time stop and think.

Remember those days when you look in the mirror and think everything about you is all wrong.

Remember that time you were at mall and you put on those jeans you thought was your size but you couldn’t get them past your thighs and how shitty you felt.

Remember that time in middle school when the mean girl told you that you were ugly, and how you wanted to just crawl into a ball and cry.

Remember that time that you were that girl, who put on her shorts or shirt that showed off a part of her body she didn’t like. And remember how brave you felt for doing that until you walked by those snarky girls and you just knew they were talking about you.

Remember how that felt, and think twice. Maybe even go up to that girl and give her a compliment, build her up and don’t tear her town.

[eyelaa]

Reminder to love yourself.

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Let us stop being so hard on ourselves.

You are more beautiful than you think.

[themiddlelayer]

I’d love to have this on every mirror I own as a reminder that beauty is so much more than the ‘images’ we have been taught to see.