Beauty the Most Misunderstood Word

“Beauty”
Beauty is such a misunderstood word
The definition is often confused
Beauty is not Photoshopped
Beauty is not replicated
Beauty is natural
Beauty is everyone and everything
So many people get this messed up
Women buy loads of make-up
To paint your face with make-up is to paint up your insecurities
To hide them from view is to doubt yourself
Your intentions may be to look attractive
But take a step back
Look in the mirror
See your true beauty without all the eyeliner, eye shadow, lipstick, blush, fake eyelashes, and mascara
If you don’t see the true beauty in your body then you are not looking hard enough
You look at all these magazine images with skinny women
Is that what you want to look like?
No no no no no
Don’t do that to yourself
If your thick, if your have curves, whatever your body looks like
Why change it?
When you starve yourself so you can be skinny like those models in those magazines
You are slowly killing your body
While you may not die from it
Just stop. Stop and think why do that to yourself?
When there are kids across the world that are hungry
You can see there ribs through their skin
Did they have a choice to be that way?
No they didn’t have a choice.
They would do anything for just a little food.
Now think if you are to starve yourself then you are making that choice
But you have food to keep you from being hungry from being below the right weight
To starve yourself is to blend in
When you are skinny like those models yea you look like them but are you unique?
Your talents and characteristics yea they make you unique
But so does your body shape
Everything makes you unique
Don’t change yourself
Don’t hide your insecurities
Show them
You will find people who don’t care that you are not skinny or that you don’t wear make-up
They like you for you
So make a change
Stop with the make-up
Stop with the excessive weight loss
I am not saying you should be overweight either
Be healthy and
Just be you
The natural you
The you that you were born looking like
Don’t misunderstand the meaning of the word
“Beauty”

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