When I have a daughter and she is too
conscious about a hole on her on her trouser, and she panics in the
middle of town, she wants to remove and stitch it because of what
everyone is thinking, I will tell her to keep walking as if the hole
wasn't there. To still walk tall. Not because I want her to be
careless, but because I want her to have enough confidence, even when
her trouser is torn, she still can walk as if she is on a runway,
that she is enough.
I want her to affirm herself that she
is beautiful even if the standards are not her. She should realize
that being different is beautiful. And if someone tells her about the
hole, she should make a joke about it and keep walking, not stooping,
not apologizing, not insisting that people MUST embrace it, for it to
become.
We are living in a time where we are
seeking approval. We have such perfectly beautiful women apologizing
for being Skinny, Curvy, Short, Tall, Yellow, Black, Brown, White.
That unless the world approves it, It isn't. Trying to convince one
that ours is a beauty too, because unless the world believed it, then
it wasn't. But really whether approved or not You really are.
Whatever shape, size, color, you should walk like the hottest chic in
the block, even when your trouser is ripped in town.
