By default I had to dedicate this blog post to the beautiful, Tori Kelly. Just this past week she performed at the Troubador and straight KILLED IT. She performed songs from her EP and then decided to make my life and perform new songs from her upcoming album. Mind you, ALL of the songs were perfection, but one really stuck out to me, and seemed relevant to my life right now. As you can see I posted the video above, and the song is called Design.
This song is about loving yourself for all of your imperfections and more. If you know me well, this is something that I feel very strongly about. In case you don't know me, I spent a great deal of my life hating everything possible about myself. From my image, to my simple thoughts, I felt as if I was not deserving of happiness. These ideas were a product of rejection from my peers and mainly -- myself. Long story short, I was heavily bullied for a majority of my schooling experience. To be blunt, it was my very own hell. One thing that I do know is that if I had realized that finding happiness starts with falling in love with yourself for who you are I would have never put myself through all of the shit that I did.
Just the other day a very close friend of mine confided in me about their insecurities. They felt that people didn't notice them, that their imperfections made them inferior to others. What's funny is that the things that they described were the EXACT reasons why I love them so much. I feel like this is something we should think about...being critical of ourselves is good, because then we are always striving to be better...but when is it too much? If there were so many things wrong with you, then why are there people in this world that love you for you? Maybe it is our imperfections that make people fall in love with us. MAYBE we should look at ourselves more lightly and realize that we are only human. You are incapable of being the perfect man or perfect woman...but you can be the perfect you. But the only way you can find perfection in yourself...is to begin by falling in love with yourself. You need to love every flaw and imperfection before you can discover your perfections. You were designed for greatness, allow yourself to rise to the occasion and start to love what has been given to you.
At the end of the day, no matter what happens, whoever walks out of your life, whatever is said against you, when you feel like their is no one else...there is only one person you have to live with -- that's you. Love that person.
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