Posts tagged beauty
Posts tagged beauty
Jaw-dropping, head-turning physical beauty is a gift you are born with. It’s not in my repertoire, it’s not something I was given. That’s fine. I have other gifts, like being able to fit my entire fist in my mouth and incredible long-distance vision. I’m not hot, I’m not stunning, I’m not beautiful. I could strive for it forever, for the rest of my life, and I will still not be a girl who turns heads at parties and gets phone numbers on the bus. But I am physically attractive, and I’m intelligent, loyal, kind and fun to be around, which are other factors of attractiveness. I do not believe I am going to be lonely because I don’t look like Megan Fox or Katy Perry. (I think I might be lonely because I don’t chew my food and spend entirely too much time talking about cats, but that’s a different post.) There’s a weird liberation in that. There’s a strange but palpable freedom in my DIY haircut and my bitten nails and the knotty callouses on my feet.
Several good points in this post. Personally, I think accepting the fact that no matter what I did I would never be “beautiful” allowed me to embrace my own sense of style—and care less and less about what other people think about my appearance. That means I feel (relatively) free to do what I want (which for me means not spending lots of time or money on a “beauty” regime), rather than trying to adhere to some arbitrary cultural standard for women’s looks.
