I AM BEAUTIFUL

I am beautiful because my hair is long and wavy and it is sometimes dry.

I am beautiful because I have combination skin; meaning some part of my skin is oily and some part is dry.

I am beautiful because my hands are rough and my arms are big.

I am beautiful because my eyebags are big and they seem to cover my eyes when I smile.

I am beautiful because my wrinkles are starting to show around my eyes and forehead.

I am beautiful because I have a crooked smile and my two front teeth are bigger than the rest and they even have a gap between them.

I am beautiful because my nose is big and it is the most identifiable part of my face.

I am beautiful because my chin is long thus giving me an elongated face.

I am beautiful because my skin is not smooth and it has some rough patches on it.

I am beautiful because I am short and I have small stubby fingers.

I am beautiful because instead of having a six-pack abs, I have a six-pound fat.

I am beautiful because the toes on my feet are not equal although they number to ten but one toe doesn’t seem to fit in the right place.

I am beautiful because the color on my face is darker than the rest of my body.

I am beautiful because I know how to love and care.

I am beautiful because I know how to cry and be hurt.

I am beautiful because I know how to make other people happy.

I am beautiful because I am a mother.

I am beautiful because I am a daughter.

I am beautiful because I am a friend.

I am beautiful because I know I am not.

What makes a person beautiful?

Is it having a perfect soft hair?

Is it having a perfect smooth skin perhaps?

Or having a perfect set of teeth?

How about having curvaceous body or having a six-pack abs?

Many of us are fascinated with the false idea of beauty. I do not contest when people becomes beautiful when they met the above requirement for being beautiful.

It is true that people; men and women alike are blinded by what only the eyes can see.

Do you consider someone who has a cleft palate beautiful?

How about someone with crooked teeth and dry, brittle hair?

Or perhaps someone, specially a woman, with a 32 inches waistline?

I believe that beauty along with love shouldn't be constricted by what the eyes can see. But the important thing is that beauty should be felt first then seen. A person becomes truly beautiful when he/she radiates from within a beautiful soul.

I don't know about you, but I see beauty in faces with imperfections, in imperfect people. Most of the time, real beauty comes out not in beauty pageants or from pages of magazines but it comes out in the most ordinary situation. Beauty is in every one.

Do you think you are beautiful?