What You Deserve
You deserve to search for love, if that’s what you’re after, and be open to embracing it when it shows up.
You deserve to look in the mirror every morning and see someone that, though not perfect, isn’t trying to be. You deserve to walk past the billboards and commercials that show staged-and-Photoshopped images of what and who you are supposed to be and laugh at them, secure in the knowledge that you are wonderful because you are real. You could imagine that the models themselves must be so much greater in person when not reduced to a pose and a cheesy tagline — maybe they are at their most beautiful when just stepping out of the shower, hair still wet, and excited to go eat a good breakfast — but you don’t compare yourself to them. You deserve to love your body simply because it is yours, and it is capable of so much.
You deserve to look beyond whatever’s on the outside, beyond any label society tries to slap on you — whether it’s fat, thin, awkward, tall, or whatever box they want to put you in. You’re so much more than that. Sure, there are times when you might regret past mistakes or notice a flaw you want to fix, or feel the weight of growing up pushing you to move faster, but none of that defines who you really are. You deserve to see the amazing things that make you you, instead of getting stuck on the little…
