24/04/2021
It took me years to confidently smile in photos. I hated my 'rabbit' teeth! That people noticed there was something odd about them made me extremely self conscious. I avoided close face to face conversations...because 'they' would notice my crooked teeth. But who were 'they' to even matter anyway? Why did it bother me if they didn't like my teeth? Many times it was acquaintances... I gave too many people power over me simply because I didn't like my teeth...because they weren't perfect...because they weren't straight... because they didn't look like those beautiful ones I saw in 'other ' people's mouths.
We are all guilty. There are bits and pieces about ourselves that we don't like. It seems like nothing much but trust me...if you put together all these bits and pieces, you will probably find that there's a whole person that you actually do not like. You don't like you.
Oh do we have issues! Perhaps your hair isn't growing right, or you are dealing with hair loss. Your face has more pimples and blemishes than you can take or you don't like that your ears stick out. You don't know why God gave you such a broad nose or why those eyebrows just don't grow. You hate that you have to wear glasses and that your collar bone sticks out. And what about having bo***es that we think are too small (they make it difficult to wear some types of strapless dresses🙄...I know this first hand) or too big bo***es that bounce around more than you are happy about...
We aren't done with complaining about our bits and pieces...😃 Why does this tummy just want keep growing outwards? We even call it 'Pot' or 'Muffin Top'. May be you have had babies but are still so hard on yourself. And what are these flubby arms and why can't they shrink? There are more stretch marks on you than a Zebra's stripes🙂🙂 By the way I have looots of those around my tummy area thanks to two pregnancies. With my first pregnancy I even tried to 'prevent ' them. With baby no. 2 I told them...' find a spot on my body that you like and settle in...and you can stay on as long as you like! ' I love my stripes. They are my badge of honour.❤
I could go on and on but let me stop already.
You have a choice to improve what you can, especially if it is affecting your general health. Do you need to make healthier food choices? Exercise more? And then there those things you can't change or can't afford to🙈.
I made peace with my teeth because I couldn't afford to do anything about them at the time. Today, I can do something about them but I choose not to. How many other imperfections will I correct? To what end?
What you can't change...embrace, love, flaunt! 'They' need to know... it's you and all your imperfections or nothing at all! We come as a package❤
📷 Ian Kanyi
MakeUp: Susan Kamene Makali
