It was hard day and I've just sit at the front of my computer, woke it up and saw open tab of tookapic... Yes, I excatly thought some bad words followed by "I need to take a pic". So I took selfie not moving myself a bit, just lighten it by my desk lamp. I think it's the first selfie here without any local enhancement and correction. Just exposure, curve and color balance during b&w conversion.
I'm a bit surprised that I can accept it like that. I started to believe that I'm enough definitely too late. Maybe it's "my time", but for years I was doubting in my appearance and in my value in general. Even despite I have proofs that I'm good enough, or even better than average. But some things heard when I was a kid, lack of some other things when I was in my teens, lead to a woman that on the one hand knew she's doing good, but on the other tried to find a confirmation of that not fully believing in it. It took me years (and I'm not finished yet) to change my mindset and simply accept who am I in general. What doesn't mean that I don't want to make me better at some points of course. But I have only one body to live in, hating it doesn't seem to be a path to happiness ;-)
Recently I've read that Tibetan people doesn't have a term like self-esteem. Because every human there is "valid". It's so beautiful!
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vera Your comment is very touching! And I believe you are far from the only woman in this fight. I think that appearance plays a fleeting and superficial role in relationships. A Bulgarian proverb says that you are received by your exterior beauty, but you are referred to what is in your head. The people who impressed me the most in my life were not the most beautiful, the smartest, the richest, or even not the most gifted, but they were the people who loved me better. There is an art of loving of the broad sense of the term. We should dethrone the goddess "beauty of the body" as a woman to free us, find our way, our friends, our destiny... In my humble opinion! Have a good trip Marta!