Beauty is What YOU Make of It

Here's the ugly truth- I don't like how I look most days. I find myself wishing I looked like this person or this actress. I wish away my thin, blonde eyebrows, in place for some more visible, "better"-shaped ones. I look at my too small pinky-toe and remember the times when it was pointed out to me how unnaturally small it was, even by family and friends, and feeling the need to always wear shoes that cover them. I spend day after day trying to tame my thick and frizzy hair because I can't ever seem to get myself to like how it looks. I ask myself why I couldn't have been taller so that my thighs thin out.

I mull over all of these parts of myself and often forget of all the other teenagers like me (boys and girls, alike) that feel the same way.

We often forget about the other things that make people, and life, beautiful. Beauty is what YOU make of it, not what your friends, society, or celebrities make of it. I would continue, but Emma Watson says it better than I ever could:

"Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Believe me. Beauty is the face of who cried and now smiles, beauty is the scar on your knee since you fell when you were a kid, beauty is the circles when love doesn't let you slee, beauty is the expression on the face when the alarm rings in the morning, it's the melted make-up when you have a shower, it's the laughter when you make a joke you're the only one who can understand, beauty is meeting his gaze and stopping understanding, beauty is your gaze when you see him, it's when you cry for all your paranoias, beauty is the lines marked by time. Beauty is what we feel in the inside which also shows the outside us. Beauty is the mark life leaves on us, all the kicks and caresses the memories leave us. Beauty is letting yourself live."

Stay Beautiful,
Sadie