There are roughly 5 billion boards on Pinterest about Beauty.
Most of them are related to hair styles, make-up and clothing: various tutorials on how to do your hair in pretty styles, to do your make-up in ways to make you look like a completely different and more beautiful person, how to do your nails beautifully. Not to mention, which products will make your hair, and skin, and make-up gorgeous. And then there's all the outfits you should be wearing to dress beautifully and jewelry to accessorize all of those outfits.
I don't have a board titled "Beauty" but I do have a board for "Hair and Make-Up" and another board for "Style." And I admittedly pin to and reference these boards frequently.
According to Pinterest, we're all concerned about being more beautiful.
Our inherent, natural beauty isn't enough.
We want more.
The last week or so I have been feeling especially un-beautiful. I've bought some new make up, some new clothes and jewelry, tried new hair styles - Pinterest recommended, of course - but nothing has worked. I've still felt incredibly blah.
What's missing?
This quote from Audrey Hepburn (one of the most beautiful women ever) sheds some light:
More make-up, hair products, nail art, clothes and jewelry won't make me, or anyone, happier or more beautiful.
Our thoughts, our words, our actions can make us most beautiful. We should start by asking ourselves: What is good about you? What kind things can you say about yourself?
I have the most trouble with this one. I can find wonderful things about others, but struggle to see it at all in myself.
But Confucius said,
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
I am a part of everything. Therefore, I have beauty in me.
It's time to start looking for it. It's time to start focusing on what goodness I have, to start treating myself with more kindness.
It's time to start looking for it. It's time to start focusing on what goodness I have, to start treating myself with more kindness.
As we look for the good and focus on being kind, we will spread beauty around us everywhere we go. It will be contagious! And who couldn't use more beautiful feelings in their lives?
I know I could.
First, I love reading your posts and how honest you are in them.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I enjoy your serious side as well as your sense of humor.
Third, when you were still in the ward and I would look behind us at you (since we sat in front of you every Sunday) I seriously thought how you are the entire package. You are beautiful inside and out, you are a very genuine person, you are amazing with kids, as well as musically talented, and I also thought that you always had the cutest clothes, plus the many more incredible things about you. I even remember telling Todd how it was not going to be hard for you to find a hubby at college, it was just going to be hard choosing from the thousands trying to win your heart!
So, with that said, I know it is natural to not feel beautiful some times, because I feel like that some days. I have days where I just feel like a frumpy mom and then I start comparing myself to everyone else which makes matters worse. Todd tells me all the time how beautiful I am and what a good mom, wife and friend I am, which of course helps. The hard part is me believing it and feeling like I am. It's getting out of the slump that is hard, but it is doable.
I just want you to know that I, along with everyone that knows you, sees how beautiful you are!