Perfect Imperfection

Accepting your own flaws and imperfections is the first step to truly loving who you are, inside and out. More often than not we will find small things about ourselves that we are self-conscious or ashamed of, but there is nothing wrong with feeling imperfect. Feeling imperfect is perfectly okay. Even though the little things that we dislike about ourselves might seem so large or noticeable to us, other people may not even take a second glance. We shouldn't cover up our imperfections because other people don’t like them, or because we feel “gross” or “repulsive”, there is somebody out there who will love every single one of those little things, so we can't try to change who we are for other people because chances are they wouldn’t do the same for us. If we are truly happy and beautiful in the body God gave us, nobody can get in our way and tell us otherwise. Inside all of us there is enough courage to be ourselves and to be happy with ourselves, we just must figure out how to show our true colors and not be ashamed of who we are. Love yourself, and every perfect little flaw you have, because you are the only you you have.

-Kristie Riley