I need you to know that you have always been and will always be enough.
I know you have spent so many years of your life wishing to be anyone else, anywhere else.
You have always been reminded that you are just a little too much.
Brooke Cagle
Maybe they told you that you were too fat or too thin.
Or that your hair was too curly or too plain.
Maybe your teeth were too crooked, or your gap was too large.
Or maybe, you were told you were just too ugly.
Maybe no matter how much you changed yourself, you were still never enough for them.
Every day, you have woken up and faced a world that did not always want to face you.
You are still here.
You are still here, and because of that, you are thriving.
Growing up is one of the most difficult things you will ever have to do in your life.
How could you ever feel pretty in a world you cannot even recognize yourself in?
This is how your mind begins to play tricks on you at such a young age.
One day, you are reading a magazine or watching your favorite t.v.
show, and you see someone being praised for their beauty.
You see this girl, and she is beautiful.
And then you look at yourself, and all of a sudden, you are not.
Her face looks different from yours.
Her body looks different from yours.
You see how others love her, and you begin to wonder how anyone could ever love you.
This is the moment that changes you forever.
This is the moment that causes you to grow up not feeling pretty.
This is the moment the world has let you down.
I am so sorry that you were always made to feel like you were less than.
What you look like on the surface will always change with time.
What you look like on the surface has nothing to do with who you truly are as a person.
What you look like on the surface should never determine your value in this world.
You are beautiful for so many more reasons than your physical appearance.
What you might consider beautiful, someone else might not, and that is okay.
Your beauty is yours, and no one can take that away from you.
You cannot let it win.
Remember the joy, the excitement, the wonder, and the awe.
Remember what it was like to explore a new place or learn something new.
To all of the girls who didnt grow up feeling pretty, I see you.
I am one of you.
And the world is so lucky to have you.
just dont let anyone else convince you otherwise.
You have always been pretty.
