szandara

We are all damaged in some way.
We are all perfect in every way.

Perfectly ourselves, and the images of what we are told to look like/be like are just ways to make us buy things, but we can choose. We can choose what we want to buy and read and listen to, without thinking that without these bought things, we are not enough.

And we don't need to be ideologically consistent all the time. I can understand that the bodies I see in advertisements are a combination of genetics and photoshopped lies, that I will never look anything like that, and still choose to lose weight to feel better, and not just healthier, but happier with what I see in the mirror. Both can be true. I can wear makeup or not wear it. I can choose to be lazy some days, and work hard on other days, and I am not a better person on my hard-work days or a bad one on my lazy days. I can allow myself to be grumpy, and still be kind by not letting my grumpiness hurt other people.

We can choose, and we can try, and we can fail, and we can succeed, because we don't need to be perfect, we already are.

I used to want to be perfect. Fuck that. I'm committed to stalking serenity and finding it and making it a best friend and daily companion. I will blame those that deserve it, but at the same time shun bitterness as much as I can.