For some reason this past week, I had an intense desire to be beautiful. I don't really know where it came from, but I just REALLY wanted to be beautiful. . .and I didn't feel it at all. It was depressing really. But after moping about it for a day or two, I decided to try to find beauty in myself. And suddenly, there were messages of beauty all over the place! Here are just a few. . .
I follow a blog called The Daily Love. If you haven't checked it out, you should. It's good stuff. And this week, one of the blogs featured the Dove Real Beauty Sketches video. Now, I've seen the video posted on Facebook walls for a couple weeks and kept meaning to watch it, but never got around to it. And then it showed up. . .this week when I desperately needed to feel beautiful. . .on a blog that I read daily. Coincidence? I think not. If you haven't yet watched this video, I'm urging you to watch it now. It is amazing and moving and so very, very true. Here is the link http://realbeautysketches.dove.us/
Watching that video made me feel a little more beautiful (and also made me want to buy every product Dove has ever made to support them!). But it didn't stop there. There were numerous Facebook and Pinterest quotes regarding beauty that popped up this week and spoke to me as well. Especially this one. . . .
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
I was starting to feel even more beautiful as the week went on and as I reminded myself that beauty comes mostly from within. Beauty on the outside has little lasting effect if it has nothing to back it up on the inside. Beauty is not just how you look, it's something that you ARE.
I was feeling much better about myself and my beauty by the end of the week. Saturday night I went out with some friends to celebrate a friend who graduated with his Master's degree. Another friend snapped a picture of the two of us laughing and having fun. I immediately thought to myself, "Oh man, I bet that picture looks terrible. I hate it when people take my picture. They always turn out awful." Wouldn't you know it, when I looked at the picture I saw a beautiful girl smiling back at me. What a pleasant surprise.
How have you loved yourself this week?
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