You are beautiful

You are unique. There is no other you in the world. There has never been and will never be another you. And you are beautiful for it.

You don't need to improve yourself, you are perfect the way you are. You don't need make up or plastic surgery to get closer to some totally random standard of beauty that has developed in main stream society. If history would have went slightly differently who would be considered beautiful and who not? Incidentally there is a nice Twilight zone episode about that.

Don't listen to the advertisements in magazines, on billboards or on television. They are all just trying to sell you a product. They want you to think you need to improve yourself. They want this so they can take your money. Most of these people don't even believe in the standards they create, they just know that it works.

What is worse is that these advertisements are completely doctored and artificial. They aren't even people anymore, just a collection of reanimated pixels.

Real beauty is happening everywhere all the time.

I strongly recommend checking out America The Beautiful for a great change in perspective on the topic of beauty.

Please, parents, raise your children to love who they are and to love their bodies. Do this by example by learning to love your own body too, after all they will take their cues from you.