Staying Positive

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken

— Oscar Wilde.

Realising.

Everyday should be seen as a blank canvas. A new day, a new beginning. Forget the bad day you had, or the bad week even, and focus on the good you have in your life. I wish that’s how I thought before, all the days I spent allowing the negativity to eat away at me. I ask myself this question every now and then. Why did I think it was normal to look at myself the way I did?

I understand that everyone has their insecurities, but self-worth is much more important and needs to be valued more. I became caught in this cycle that I started doubting who I was as a person, I valued other people instead of myself. Looking back now, it all seems pointless, comparing myself to every girl I came across for what reason? It didn’t change what I looked like or who I am, it just made me hate who I was.

Having an unhealthy relationship with myself was the worst, but also the best thing that happened to me. Once I came to the realisation that I was in a toxic realationship with myself, I needed to start looking after my mind and my body.

Realising your strength and your beauty is such a powerful thing. It doesn’t matter how other people look, or what other people think about you. All that matters is yourself. Self love is something I have wanted for the longest time, and now that I am slowly getting there. I am becoming the woman I’ve always wanted to be. Strong, caring, loving.