Self Esteem-I am me!
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Published on 08-03-2010 04:55 PM
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Self Esteem – I am me!
This is my self esteem story. Ever since I can remember, I have loved to dance. But every time I wanted to dance, I would get so distracted. I spent as much time worrying about the way my body looks as I did paying attention to my technique. I’m not even overweight, but I still had so little self esteem. In the dance studio everyone looked so good. I wished I could look as good as they did. I thought maybe I would be a more successful dancer if I looked better. I thought maybe I should go to a plastic surgeon, get liposuction. If I could have just put that extra fat on my thighs onto my chest I would look great.
Your self esteem is being challenged everyday of your life. On TV and in the movies, even in the grocery store check out, there were beautiful women. My friend, who works in media, told me how those pictures in magazines and on TV weren’t real. They get their bodies modified by surgery, then are flooded by light on the set. If that’s not enough they can fix the pictures in Photoshop to look exactly how they want them to. It didn’t seem right to me that a woman’s beauty had to fit into how someone else wanted it to look. I don’t want my self esteem to be based on someone else’s definition of me.
Coco Chanel defined self esteem. She changed the face of fashion. She wasn’t afraid to wear what she wanted, and be what she wanted to be. It didn’t matter what anyone else said. She knew what she liked. She designed clothing to be worn by a woman, not the other way around. I wondered why I wasn’t like that. Maybe my problem with self esteem was that I worried too much about what other people thought. I am the one who has to live in my skin after all.
I saw a magazine recently where they had photos of celebrities without their makeup, and I was shocked! I did not even recognize some of them! This made me think a lot! I was not going to feel bad about how I look. I am me. I am beautiful the way I am! I didn’t need those looks that are fake and brought on by makeup. I thought about the term ‘self esteem’. I realized that it means me seeing my own worth. I was not going to let the way I feel about myself be dependent on how someone else felt about me. It is ok for me to know that I’m great. I don’t have to have other people tell me that to know it. So what if my thighs are too lumpy? Does that affect my influence on the world? No it doesn’t. Last time I was in the dance studio, I remembered that everyone else was going to have to be ok with me, because I was ok with me. It felt great! I danced like I never had before.
My self esteem rose a lot, and I feel happy everyday with what I have! You can PM me if you want to contact me!
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