Saturday 2 August 2008

G'Day,
The sunday scribblings prompt was a bit hard for me to think of something to write about this week. While I was laying in bed this morning I thought....

Do I have to have this face?
Do I have to have this nose?
This Skin?
This body?

Do I have to ?
Not be happy with
what nature gave me?
No.
I have to work with it
And do the best I can
With what I have.

Yes I guess that is a bit different from what everybody else has interpreted from this prompt.
I have never been the sort to want to change myself with cosmetics or had the money to change surgically if I even wanted to. But as I get older I think that the things that worry younger people, like vanity and fashion, don't apply to me anymore and I should be accepted as who I am and not by my exterior. I still sometimes think it would be nice to wear size 10 clothes and look like I belong in the crowd. Or that I should look pretty, but I accept myself and my view of what society may think I am. I have a like it or lump it attitude. I am a good person , I am loved by my loved ones. The others don't matter, Do they.

4 comments:

Sorrow said...

http://sorrow11.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/drseuss.jpg
dang!
i was trying to send a link, but i am so not the computer person...
ahh well
it says " be who you are and say what you feel, because those that mind don't matterand those that matter don't mind!"
So with you there!

MeowGoddess said...

Dear Goddess May,

Excellent post!!! Thank you for sharing.

You wrote it so beautifully: "the others don't matter, do they."

You don't have to work with it or do the best you can. You just have to be great-full for the beautiful packaging and temple that your soul chose to live in.

Wishing You,
Peace & Love, Just Because,
Goddess Diana

Keith's Ramblings said...

The last two sentences sum it all up perfectly! Nice read,

Martha said...

Accepting yourself is not easy but it is liberating. Good post.