Accept Yourself For You Are Beautiful
Am so happy for all the Advice given yesterday to me, concerning my noisy neighbors. I spoke to them this morning about the inconveniences and I could tell they were really sorry for the disturbance, so it's obvious I will be getting a good sleep tonight. That's not my main topic, only wanted sharing the news with everyone. Today being a free day for me, I decided to visit the beach with my man, just to look at the waves and get some fresh air, different from the polluted one in the city.
We were just relaxing on one of the beach chairs, when I heard some group of guys giggling and pointing at a lady, screaming 'fat' . I was shocked for I thought such acts was too old to be seen in the 21st century.
I walked up to the lady who was embarrassed and was hiding her face in her palm, I tapped her and she looked up, she was so gorgeous but she had issues accepting herself. I looked at her, didn't want to snap a photo with her, as she was too nervous.
Have you ever been body shamed?
Incidents like this used to occur when I was in school, where students tend to either mimick the walking step, posture or how others behave just to mock them. I could remember being called the girl with the long legs, because I was the tallest in my class. Though we used to take it as fun while others took it so serious.
Have heard cases of people who commit suicide just because they were body shamed. Now the big question is, how would you feel if the person you body shamed an hour ago, just committed suicide ? Couldn't eat or is having sleepless nights ? I hope you will be happy ? Body shaming others isn't nice and should be frown at.
My lead image says; Your body belongs to you meaning you are the only one who will decide if to stay happy, or sad because someone body shamed you. They are not worth your precious time, so why give it to them ?
Always remember nobody was born perfect, everyone has their scars. The only difference between you and them, is that fact they are able to hide their scars perfectly while you can't . Also they have long accepted themselves the way they are, while you are still struggling to do same.
Just like my man told the lady at the beach today, Accept yourself for you are beautiful, if you don't like yourself the way you are, no one will.
Dear readers, have you been body shamed, or knows anyone that is being body shamed? Please help talk to them, because their mental health is very important. Let's paint the world with love rather than with segregation, everyone was born beautiful irrespective of the color, height, shape and size. Let's save a life today, let's kick against body shaming.
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Wrinkle you write up is wonderful. I had a friend in school, she had the same experience of been body shamed because she was fat. She was so down and depressed to the extend that she stop eating just to watch her weight and she suddenly got diagnosed of stomach ulcer. But now am happy for her that she is now proud of who she is today.