When You Finally Start Loving Your Body & Appreciating It As Art…
It’s Self Building!
I can’t tell you how long it took for me to love myself physically and every bit of who I am. I mean of course I always thought I was a good person, had a good heart, cute, and had a good personality, but I never thought I was good enough. Maybe I thought this way because I was always compared to others, or maybe it was the way some people perceived me. Whatever the reason was it made me think differently about my self and the journey to loving myself was not a walk in the park.
Above is a video of me in Bali at the Water Palace while it rained. Rain, Rain GO AWAY! lol
Some would ask me, “Why are you so different, and why do you do things this way instead of how others do it.” Then they would go on & on about why am I this or that. So I began comparing myself to others and started to wonder why I wasn’t not like everyone else. This was my downfall. I’m not sure what insecurities those people that would tell me these things had within themselves that they began to reflect on to me, but this was not the way I perceived myself nor the way I disciplined myself to be better.
I’ve learned to never compare myself. If anyone compares you to anyone else in a negative way all the time, it places self doubt in your mind. You begin to deprive yourself of appreciating your self worth. It’s ok admire others and compare yourself to be great like someone because you appreciate their achievements, but you must not diminish yourself worth because you are not everything they are. We all are made different and it’s impossible to do and be like someone else because you are YOU!
-All photos were taken in the beautiful island of Bali. -
Forget about when someone tells you they wish you were more like this person. Well you’re not, you are who you are for a reason. You are gracefully made even with all your quirks about you, that’s what makes you unique. When I came to this realization I began to love my dark skin and small frame because it’s who I am. I even began to be content with myself even when I’m bloated lol. I began to like the way I overthink things, how goofy I am, the way I cover it up with my shy ways, and my way I process life and discover new things.
I was always told I was too much of something when I tried to be myself but I had to realize that God graces me with extra for a reason. It’s ok to be too much of yourself because that is exactly who you need to be! When I came to this realization, I began to appreciate who I am and love my over obsession of weird things and the way I find the beauty in everything. I began to love that I’m overly helpful and the way I over explain things. I begin to love the shy and introverted women I am.
So when I finally start loving my body and appreciating it as art I began to blossom in who I am today. 🌻
