love yourself. love yourself because you are amazing– your tired eyes, your crooked teeth, the way you walk, the way you say funny things before you sleep. love your body because it is yours and because it is the only one you’ll get to live in. ready?
start with your eyes. look into them. stare until you can’t stop smiling because those eyes are yours and they’re staring back at you, filled to the brim with love. take note of your mouth, how your lips curve or don’t, how your teeth are straight or not, how your skin is smooth or red or worn. tell your wrinkles, your laughing lines, your acne scars that YOU LOVE THEM because they are yours. hold your hands as if you were holding a lovers’, or as if a small bird was making its nest in your palm. run your fingertips over your palm, over the other fingertips, over your face and neck and chest and feet. love your stomach and your hips, your ‘lackthereof’ or your ‘fartoomuch’, because they are YOURS and belong to no one else. love your too-long or not-enough legs, which are fine just the way they are. love your neck, your back, your spine. love your bones for making you sturdy and your heart for keeping you alive; your veins and lungs for keeping you afloat.
now look back in the mirror. let your bright eyes sparkle a fearless gaze: IT IS OKAY.
you are AMAZING.
7 Comments
September 10, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I love this, this is just the way I think <3
September 13, 2008 at 7:13 am
Thankyou
September 14, 2008 at 3:27 am
I needed this really badly, thank you. Your site is great and I am glad that it exists.
September 20, 2008 at 10:24 am
you are amazing. i needed this so much. perfect.
September 22, 2008 at 10:10 pm
This is wonderful! Thank you for the reminder
October 6, 2008 at 11:34 pm
sooo beautiful, thank you
December 11, 2008 at 8:30 am
you wrote that for me right? lol, thanks that was lovely..!