Shower Thoughts

Just thinking about how our insecurities are so big to us, yet often so invisible to others. We pick ourselves apart and pinpoint specific things we want to change and those parts become the only things we can see, blown up to epic proportions. And when your best friend or romantic partner tries to convince you that you are perfect the way you are, you point to those areas that are mountainous that you are unable to ignore and you say “No I’m not! You see this?!” And they look at you and ask “What the hell are you even pointing at?” Because these are things other people gloss over. These are things we ourselves decided are flaws, but they are just parts of the whole for everyone else when they look at us. We’ve trained ourselves to immediately look at the areas we hate on our bodies, but they don’t actually have a bullseye painted on them for everyone else to zone in on. And really, that’s just one of many reasons we all need each other so much. That’s why intimacy is so important. Because one day, someone you love is going to point at that flaw they despise so much, and you will want to kiss it, and maybe, if you let it, that lesson will sink in and you’ll see that those flaws you hate don’t deserve the intense animosity you’ve been aiming at it.