I really despise body shaming; yet, I’m the first to shame my own body. I talk about how body shaming is a horrible and terrible thing but I do the exact opposite. I look at myself and I see many flaws. I am not perfect. I pick apart my body and my crooked nose, my teeth and hair, etc. I can come up with many different things that make me unworthy of even being looked at by another person but I can never quite come up with one thing for someone else.
Why is it so easy to pull out other people’s likeable features but so hard to not do that with my own? It’s because my own perception of self is warped. I refuse to see what others see of me because I don’t believe I’m worth it.
I try to wrap my own brain around this: how I view myself and how I put value on physicality. What makes a person worth more than another? Do these aspects of ourselves really dictate what a person is worth? Everyone has worth and everyone is worth being. It’s taken me a while to realize that, to see differently and not dwell so much on all the ‘wrong’ but what I’ve done right.
I try to look past the struggles even on the hardest days to find even the tiniest, shred of hope in someone or thing but more so in myself. We have all come so far. We have all fallen but we get back up and when we do we should look at ourselves with compassion.
Look at that man or woman and say, you’re here and you’re worth it because I love you for you. A body is place we should call home because it is always with us .We must take care of ourselves. Body shaming isn’t taking care but taking strong action against your body like abuse.
We are all beautiful in our own ways regardless of physicality because we are the very definition of beauty.
By: Emme Lisbeth
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