I’m Conceited….I gotta Reason

**TRIGGER WARNING** REMEMBER: YOU ARE BEAUTIFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE, THE CHOSEN ONE

Remember a time when you were called “conceited” if you bragged about how pretty or fly you were? Or maybe you just loved yourself a little more than others (also didn’t hurt that everyone always called you cute). Nah I never experienced it either, but I saw others that did. And yup! I called them “vain”, “stuck-up”, and “she think shes better than everyone else”, but I was like 10 or 11. What did I really know? Were those my own feelings, or were they taught subliminally? I mean I clearly heard someone else say those words before. Now that I think back sounds like a lot of HATE! HATE for oneself, and HATE for someone that looks like you. Strictly based on their appearance and ONLY in comparison to you! ( I do believe that if I would have “looked” like them I would not have said those words)

This was instilled at a lot of students just in my elementary school, so I can only imagine who else was affected. In other words if you actually did have any of the qualities society deemed as “cute” (Long hair, fair skin, colored eyes), you were not allowed to show off and flaunt your beauty. If you did you ran the risk of being called “stuck-up” or “thinking you were better than everyone else” (Same things I used to say smh)

Can you imagine what that did to the remainder of the population that didn’t fit that standard of beauty?? EXACTLY they felt like they were extremely ugly and maybe even prompted them to be bullies to those that did fit the standard. They probably never imagined a day they would be physically accepted in society. This was before clothes and additives could make you “cool”, and “attractive”.

So if you grew up thinking you were beautiful you were chastised, and if you didn’t fit societies standard of beauty you were double chastised and called names….Now we second guess our own beauty

TRAUMA or TRUEHARM #2

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