Flowers Are Beautiful but So Are Snowflakes

Beauty.

As women it’s something that we admire and something we long to have.

And our world keeps changing what the definition of beautiful means. It used to mean THIS but now it means having THAT (thigh gap?) So we pinch and sweat and paint and pluck and style ourselves into looking as much like THAT as we possibly can.

But for the girls who wake up rarely feeling beautiful, because they are impossibly far from being THAT, remember that beauty comes in so many different forms.

Have you ever watched the sunrise? Beautiful. Seen the mountains capped with snow basking under light blue skies? They’re Beautiful. Hung Christmas lights around your room? Beautiful! The thing is, beauty is everywhere and shows itself in so many different ways.

We love flowers because they are beautiful. But it would be a ridiculous and boring world if we tried to say that the only thing in nature that is beautiful are flowers. The thing that makes nature overall so amazing and spectacular is the vast array of beauty in different forms. I think us  as women need to embrace this same truth about ourselves.

We all can’t look like Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande or Jennifer Lawrence.

Some of us have great eyebrows and no butt. A perfect body but horrible acne. Nice abs but weird looking toes. And some of us feel a lot more like a potato than a person. But that doesn’t mean you’re not beautiful, girl.

Flowers are beautiful but so are snowflakes and they look NOTHING alike.

We are all a glorious mess of different spectacular pieces and just because you don’t look like THAT doesn’t mean you aren’t beautiful in your own ridiculously awesome way.

So smile at yourself in the mirror today. Because my hope would be that the way you feel watching a sunrise would be the same way you feel looking yourself in the face.

Own your body.

Rock what you got with a smile.

You got this.