Being
You
“Imagine
being blissfully comfortable in your own skin, knowing with the
utmost clarity exactly who you are and feeling eager to lovingly,
proudly share that authentic you with the world...” Lisa McCourt
No
one is more attractive than a person who is comfortable in their own
skin, regardless of who they are, what shape or size, whether young
or old. Being around someone like that is relaxing, it puts people at
ease, there is a palpable sigh in the room. On the other hand, being
with someone, or worse still, being someone, who is at the whim of
the environment, the fashion industry, the collective consciousness
of what is “in” and what is “out” is,
quite honestly, exhausting. Feeling as though you are somehow naked
if you don't look like, or live like, those you perceive to “have
it all” is akin to having St. Vitus Dance—you can't stop jigging
like a marionette, dancing in place to music you don't even like or
understand. Envy is a corrosive emotion.
If
you do nothing else in your sweet lifetime, learn to love who you
are. Real beauty does not come from a bottle, nor from injecting
poison into the wrinkles that living long and being human have given
you. Beauty comes from knowing and accepting yourself completely. I'm
not just suggesting feeling “okay” in your own skin, but loving
it, becoming more you, stretching into yourself and filling in all
the gaps and lines. Develop your own style, listen to your own music,
step to your own rhythm, and then, take that authentic you into the
world and live from it. That is who we are meant to be; that is what
we are meant to do. Not to copy someone else or try to fit in, but to
be uniquely ourselves. That is God's gift to us, and our gift to the
family of man.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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