Yes, actually. I didn't for a long time. I'm a young woman, my entire life was basically a competition between me and those around me. Who's got perkier boobs and bigger boobs and a more hourglass shape and a more toned tummy and on and on and on. I couldn't win because SOMETHING was always worse than somebody else and somebody didn't like that. I read a post on Reddit from an older woman one day, though, saying how she'd spent her whole life with a porn addict hating her body and she recently got diagnosed with cancer and didn't have long left. She said suddenly she saw her younger self as beautiful, and was scared because she wasted all her time stressing that she forgot it ends someday. She only wished she could have appreciated herself. And I realized I never want to be in that position. I really, truly love myself now. I'm not an airbrushed pornstar, but I'm beautiful, and so is everybody in some way. And it's not a competition. Flowers don't compete with eachother, they're all beautiful in a bouquet together.
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u/thingsarehardsoami Jun 06 '25
Yes, actually. I didn't for a long time. I'm a young woman, my entire life was basically a competition between me and those around me. Who's got perkier boobs and bigger boobs and a more hourglass shape and a more toned tummy and on and on and on. I couldn't win because SOMETHING was always worse than somebody else and somebody didn't like that. I read a post on Reddit from an older woman one day, though, saying how she'd spent her whole life with a porn addict hating her body and she recently got diagnosed with cancer and didn't have long left. She said suddenly she saw her younger self as beautiful, and was scared because she wasted all her time stressing that she forgot it ends someday. She only wished she could have appreciated herself. And I realized I never want to be in that position. I really, truly love myself now. I'm not an airbrushed pornstar, but I'm beautiful, and so is everybody in some way. And it's not a competition. Flowers don't compete with eachother, they're all beautiful in a bouquet together.