Petite Sweet

I realize that I’m a petite girl.

 

I have always been self-conscious about my size.

 

Growing up, it never helped when people would say those cliché lines like, “great things come in small packages”, because early on I knew that great things can come in all sorts of packages, shapes and sizes. So I would just continue on with my life and I'd smirk at those types of remarks, because it gets old.

 

Doesn't it?

 

Why do people feel the need to say those types of things? Who are they trying to fool? It will never change the way that I think about myself. Just because they say it, doesn’t mean that those words are automatically my thoughts. I think that’s what’s weird about it: People believe that when they’re making suggestions for you to think a certain way, that you will, but often times we don’t. I don’t know why, but never once did anyone saying that make me feel any better about myself; it just draws more attention to the thing that I’m already conscious about. It makes me think about it more, it makes me criticize me, more. It makes me dread being me, more. I SWEAR, you don’t have to be a fat girl to have body issues.

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