Women,
No matter how sophisticated, grown up, successful or beautiful we are, we all have our insecure days.
I believe in you, your authenticity, your uniqueness, your intensity. I love your restlessness and your hunger. You possess the energy that if unleashed, could transform, inspire and heal the world.
Everyone seems to have a certain way they want you to be, magazines, men, politicians, parents, siblings and even your girlfriends.
So many women are under the pressure of trying to please everyone.
To please, women starve themselves to look a certain way, women give in to men when we're not ready. To please our parents we become overachievers. If we are so busy trying to please everyone else where is the time to find what pleases us? Do you even know what your needs are? The act of "pleasing" makes everything murky. We lose track of ourselves. We stop uttering declaratory, we stop directing our lives. We tend to make everything OKAY than real.
So many teen girls have their lives hijacked, their thoughts and opinions of themselves are so distorted that teen suicide is at an all time high!
Some women have been trying to please their entire lives and have yet to figure out who they really are.
Women, move at your own speed, talk with confidence, wear what you want and not what is dictated to us. Take responsibility for who you really are. Listen to that little voice inside of you that pushes you to please and just do it YOUR way!
Women are emotional and caregivers... it's time we also take care of ourselves and encourage those women around us to do the same!
Good post. Frankly, I learned a long time ago that you can't please everyone, and there are some people you can never please. Happiness is a choice.
ReplyDeleteWhatever state I find myself, I choose to be content.
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Hi Vickie, here is a favorite quote of mine (I think it applies here):
ReplyDelete"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)