Who would we think....

I saw this on Christal's blog and it really goes along to what has been on my mind a lot lately.

WHO WOULD WE THINK IS BEAUTIFUL IF SOCIETY DIDN'T TELL US WHO IS BEAUTIFUL

because reality is: the majority of us
have some love handles, maybe some chunky thighs, a bit of cellulite,
a muffin top , some back fat
healthy relief society arms and some of us aren't blessed with super sonic speed metabolic burning bodies... and....
{of course that doesn't mean we can't dream, train and achieve,
a healthy body and image} but...
truth is most of us don't look like the super models splashed everywhere we look and the clothes they wear and we buy....
we'll still never look like them,
fact is photoshop and airbrushing, magazines, plastic surgery, exploitation of women..... makes us feel like we have a standard to live up too that isn't even close to reality,
a very twisted perception on what is beauty
truth is sometimes no matter how much we exercise and eat right we'll always want to be something else...never good enough in our own eyes there will always be I wish I could lose ? lbs or I wish this was and I wish I could be...... on and on whatever it is for each of us.. instead of just being happy .....
If we worked on our inner package of perfection more than concentrating so highly on the outer package and got rid of the judging thoughts on ourself and others..... the self loathing..... the low self confidence and esteem ...........
as much time as we stress over and about our outer package of perfection..which is never attainable to begin with... things might be different if we focused more on what we teach our children.... its whats inside that counts when that starts happening things will change on the outside too.


People get so competitive about things and it really bothers me because you know what? In REALITY, in ETERNITY, none of us are better than anyone else. Nobody's children are or will be cuter than the next persons, no one is prettier than the person next to them, no one is smarter in all ways than the person next to them...we all have different abilitlies/strengths/traits that make us who we are. Just because what we percieve someone is better at doesn't make them better than us. Comparing ourselves to other is, to me, competition in a small sense and who want us to compare ourselves to each other???? It certainly isn't the one being that should matter most.
We are all equal in the eye's of God and that's all that should matter.

And we don't know everyone's circumstance. Just because someone is overweight doesn't mean they are lazy and eat crap all the time. It's possible that they have a very real medical condition. Or what about the person who is super thin...maybe they don't work out at all. We can never be too careful about looking at other people and making judgement calls in our minds about them.

We are all beautiful in our own ways and that's what people should try to look at. Not at what they don't have or wish they have that someone else has. I heard someone say not too long ago that if we could walk in another person's shoes, we would beg for our own shoes back.

Be grateful for what you have now because that's what matters most.