Words

It's outstanding how much we let the words of others get to us, especially the negative ones. Every little bit of criticism, or rather cruelness, sticks with you for life.

Way back when, in grade six, a girl I was set on being friends with told me that freckles made people look ugly. Me being someone with a face covered in freckles took this as a personal statement and have never let it slip out of my mind, as you can tell. Due to my permanent, but not extremely noticeable, bell's palsy, I have been sporadically asked why my face looks funny, or my one eye looks as if it's twitching while I talk. Now I frequently ask people if they notice it and have even gone to the length of getting fringe to cover my eye so it's slightly less noticeable. Sounds crazy right? But it's not like I'm the only one who acts based on the opinions of others.

My question is why do we let words effect us so much? Sure it's great to get compliments, and awful to receive hateful words, but can't we just do things for ourselves? If I want to die my hair pink, so be it. If I gain 50 lbs and become overweight why should I make sure everyone else is okay with it before I am? That's right, I shouldn't. As long as I comfortable in my own body and mind, people shouldn't be able to tell me otherwise.

Before I end this blog post I'd like to state that it's not only the negative comments that I let stick with me. If you've read my post titled "Beauty", about the guy who told me I shouldn't think badly of myself and that I have the most beautiful eyes, then you should know that that is something that I will NEVER forget. Sure I may not entirely believe it because I am pessimistic realist, but there is still that tiny part of me that believes it all and that will always make me feel good about myself whenever I think about it.

I guess the main point of this is that we as people shouldn't let others get to us the way that they do. We need to be able to look past the negativity and see ourselves as beautiful, and that's coming from me.