With the new year, I’m reading Demi Lovato’s Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year. She’s become such a huge inspiration to me because I feel like even though she’s younger than me by a year or two, she’s someone I can look up to. Every day she writes a short entry and then writes a goal to go with it. On January 1st, she writes “Goal: In this year, come up with a mantra that is just yours. Each day, look in the mirror and repeat it back to yourself.” My mantra that I came up with, after thinking about it for a while, is “I’m beautiful and good enough.” We all have days where we’e insecure and feel like we’re not good enough or beautiful enough. Some of us are lucky to have people in our lives who make us feel beautiful, but some of us aren’t so lucky. Here’s a poem to go along with the theme of this post.
Words Being Said
I’m beautiful on
The outside but
It’s my personality
That is so much more.
I’m me and that’s all
That matters.
I’m beautiful on the
Outside but I’m also
Beautiful on the inside
Even when it feels like
Things are messy.
I want to see and feel
All the mess because
It’s better than perfectly
Pieced puzzles. It’s better
To accept the messy
And imperfect parts
Than to accept absolute
Perfection. I would rather
See chaos rather than
The calm before the storm.
That’s what we are.
We’re accepted because
Of that.
P.S. I just want to thank the person who inspired this poem. Thank you for giving me the words to make me feel better and for some of the things said in the poem (some them are your words exactly). You’re the one who inspired me to come up with that mantra. I can’t thank you enough!!
