I hope that you're aware that learning to accept and love yourself is a process.
It's not something that happens overnight, and it takes work.
But there's one key factor to accepting yourself that most people don't realize, that I myself am just learning:
It's something you have to do over and over.
You might think: "Wait a minute, I already accepted myself. I learned how to love myself as I am. Why would I have to do that again?"
Because, darling, you never stay the same for long.
You are going to change. A lot.
There will be a time in the future, maybe the not-so-distant future, when you look back at who you used to be and are floored by how different you've become.
Your interests could change; your looks could change; your abilities could change; your desires could change; your circumstances could change.
And those changes aren't a bad thing.
I've experienced a lot of changes this summer, and for the most part I have been struggling for months to recognize and accept the mess I'd become.
I was trying desperately to get back to who I used to be, thinking that was how to "fix" myself.
But what I didn't realize is that I can't go back to who I used to be,
and that is a wonderful thing.
Changes can be beautiful. They are necessary. If you went your whole life without changing, I would say that you have completely missed the point of this beautiful life we've been given.
The fact is, I'm a different person than I used to be. And I will be a different person in the future than I am now. And I have to learn how to accept those new versions of myself, just as I had to learn to accept the person I was before.
You are a masterpiece.
You are unique and extraordinary.
And you are a different extraordinary masterpiece than you used to be.
So learn to see yourself, the self you are right now, as someone to celebrate and accept and love.
Because you, the messy, changing, transitory you you are right now, is beautiful.
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