I’ve always been a shy girl. With my friends and family I’ll be my normal usual self but when in public I’ll shy away.
Today a man came to our university to talk to us about life, success and so on.
During his talk he asked us where we get our information from. Now for a person like me who has BBC and Al-Jazeera apps on her phone it’s weird because that’s not what regular 18 yr olds have. But in any case I shouted from the back “Al-Jazeera!” as opposed to the rest who shouted “Gossip!” And so on. Everyone looked back and I was so scared I hid myself behind my friend.
And in that moment I decided to fucking own it. Own my embarrassing moments and eventually laugh at them. Own my weird likes and dislikes. In general just own everything about me, good and bad.
It’s like a weight lifted off my shoulder. I don’t have to worry anymore about what people will think, it’s not their business anyway.
Anyway I choose to own it, not be afraid and just be me 🙂 ♡♥
Half-Marathon; Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Body
Amazing!
I’ve never told anyone these things. My parents, my sister, my friends – no one. So heads up. You’re the first to know.
For the last few years, I have grown, slowly but steadily, to despise the way my body looks.
When I was a kid, I was always told how skinny I was. I didn’t break fifty pounds until I was eight years old. In high school I was always the smallest – height and weight – of my friends. I grew up knowing, somehow, intuitively, that ‘being skinny’ was something good, that it was something I should maintain. In high school, that belief was confirmed and reinforced by magazines, friends who were constantly ‘dieting’, and my school’s insistence on athletic rigor and social ostracism of students who didn’t fit the body ideal. But I was always warned that, as a woman, ‘my time would come’, I would have kids…
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