#questinguniverse

[questingtheuniverse]

“He tells her that she’s beautiful. She has never heard that before, though she has sometimes privately suspected it of herself, but it feels different to hear it from another person.”

Sally Rooney, Normal People

[questingtheuniverse]

I could tell you all of the wonderful things I think about you until I’m blue in the face.

But that won’t change the way you feel about yourself. And whatever you feel about yourself is what mobilizes your life.

[questingtheuniverse]

Don’t

You’ve had an experience. And it was revealing and/or insightful.

Maybe you’ve grown. Maybe it has changed you. Maybe it was beautiful. Maybe it wasn’t.

But don’t negate my own personal appreciation of something because your experience may have been more visceral. That doesn’t necessarily make it more profound, better understood or more worthy of appreciation.

Operative term: your experience.

[questingtheuniverse]

Beauty

Do you subscribe to the societal “standard of beauty”?

And, as a result, do you find yourself “ugly”?

1. a standard of any kind is just when a group of people decided amongst themselves what they thought was nice/acceptable. Keep that in mind.

2. It does not mean that if you don’t fall into the constructs of this “standard of beauty”, then you are ugly.  ....that’s completely incorrect.

You are not ugly. I promise you.

Stop calling yourself:

Average

Unattractive

Regular

Plain

Alright

Whatever

Ugly.

Stop. Just stop

You are beautiful. I promise you.