For those of you who are insecure

 If you ever compare yourself to someone else and start feeling insecure read this.

You are probably thinking, "oh! she's just gonna tell me that "I'm worth it", "I'm pretty just the way I'm and shouldn't compare myself to others", "I should be happy and grateful for the way I look and for who I have and who I'm", and etc. Yes, because it's true.

Everyone has something great in themselves to offer to the world and the people we love and care for. But hearing someone tell you that you are beautiful and that you are enough, is not gonna do anything for you because you won't believe it yourself.

But that is not what this post is about, this post is just to make you realize that, you see yourself every single day in that mirror and you may be tired of the way you look. You have seen yourself so much that, you start seeing flaws. Other people don't see you every day. They don't see you, the way you see yourself. For instance, if you have ever drawn something, try looking at it for 5 seconds. You will think it's good. Now try looking at it for 1 minute. It'll look decent. And now try looking at it for 1 hour, spoiler alert, you will hate it. You will see how terrible of an artist you are. The more you stare, the uglier it seems to get, more mistakes you seem to find.

Others look at you and see the amazing features that you have, that you, yourself are tired of. Perfect people that you compare yourself to, they also have the same imperfections the way you see in yourself. And I can guarantee that someone has compared themselves to you as well. But, sadly you don't find yourself to be perfect. And who is telling you to be perfect anyway? 

You think you aren't attractive, just because you don't look like someone who you think is attractive. Fireflies are pretty but so are flowers, and they look nothing alike.

And talking about "perfection", we add egg, salt, baking soda into a cake. When we taste them individually they are gross, but they are very important ingredients in a cake recipe. Furthermore, cakes are delicious. [sorry but not sorry for using such a metaphor] But you get it, right?

There is a Japanese aesthetic called "wabi-sabi" which means accepting the beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent and incomplete" in nature.

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