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Bye to insecurities

This article is all about embracing yourself and not letting anyone dictate how you should feel about yourself.

By Vanshika DhawanPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Bye to insecurities
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Insecurity is a feeling of being not confident, judging yourself, thinking that you are not beautiful enough and this is something which we all have gone through at some stage of life. This feeling of self-doubt keeps on building inside us especially teenagers which leads to frustrations, anxiety, stress, unhappiness, unnecessary fear, and worry.

Insecurity can be a result of a failed relationship or a loss or an event or maybe a comment passed by someone who thinks he or she is superior to you. This causes less self-esteem which leads to a habit of disconnecting with the world not realizing that there are so many people who are actually going to appreciate them for who they are.

We think that actresses, models, and other people are more beautiful than us and this is because society has set certain rules for beauty. We don't realize that they were times when the actresses were even insecure but then they accepted the way they are which lead to a rise in their confidence and in reality we are praising their confidence. Nowadays main reason for teenage insecurity is social media because they see everyone out there who they think is perfect and fitting as per the rules instead of believing that social media is fake.

Everyone's beauty resides inside their heart, not on their face or body. No one is more or less beautiful than them. We look at social media influencers, personalities, or even other people in our lives, we look at their "perfect" images and start judging that we aren't perfect enough. We try to become like them which makes us lose our real selves. We start thinking that life is so unfair to us and we can never match their standards, their perfect bone structures, facial features, etc and we are not pretty enough. We all need to realize that our beauty is also celebrated like others are, you just need to get out of your toxic zone.

There is not just one beauty standard but they are in the same number as the number of human beings is currently on this planet and every newborn adds up to the number of beauty standards. We have given our power to society or to the media to define us or to rate us as per their rules but if you get that power back in your hand then no one in this whole world has the power to pull you down. Beauty doesn't come from products, from surgeries, from your clothes or your body or your face. If you start chanting about your insecurities only one thing which is going to happen is that you not live and die before you will actually die. Stop living in a fancy world that is unreal.

You just need to stop letting the world dictate how you should be and get the keys of your life in your hand. What you have is unique and that makes you beautiful. You need to understand that you think that someone is prettier than you because they have a certain type of nose, lips, eyes, body, or hair but you don't know what other person is insecure about herself or himself.

Stop judging from the outside, you don't know maybe a person who you think is "perfect" also thinks that someone else than them is perfect and they are lacking somewhere. I need you to get rid of this thought. You just haven't seen inside you and once you see it you will never ever consider yourself to be less than others. You are enough and you are worthy. You need to love yourself. Everyone around you has bad days just like you. Every second you spend disliking yourself is a waste, start embracing yourself.

Don't let people walk over you all the time. Don't let the light inside you be dimmed down. The way you look completes you and that makes you beautiful. Don't give up on your beauty by just seeing other outer beauty. You are the best from both outside and inside and just start to embrace your flaws.

Owning what you have got is really important. Always remember that perfect people are never real. People pretend to be perfect because they want you to feel bad about yourself and you just don't have to let that happen. You don't need anyone's validation for being yourself and love every version of yourself. Just love yourself.

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Vanshika Dhawan

Words directly from my heart.

Stories directly from my mind.

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